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C-32s: Law, Cases, & Practice Pointers
C-32s: Law, Cases, & Practice Pointers

What if there were an easy way to get a physician’s opinion into evidence? Great news! For 35 years now, we’ve had that shortcut: section 50-6-235 and its rule counterpart, 0800-02-01-.09. The statute and rule […]
NJ Issues Stop-Work Orders for Lack of Workers' Compensation Insurance
NJ Issues Stop-Work Orders for Lack of Workers' Compensation Insurance

Enforce continues at a rapid pace in New Jersey for failure to comply with the state’s labor laws. The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) issued stop-work orders to contractor HESP Solar […]
Case Management Focus: Standards of Practice for Case Managers
Case Management Focus: Standards of Practice for Case Managers

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The Standards of Practice for Case Management were developed in 1995 by the Case Management Society of America and have been updated every five years to keep up with the changing […]
Unreported Bathroom Breaks, not Reprisal, Flush Wayfair Worker's Job
Unreported Bathroom Breaks, not Reprisal, Flush Wayfair Worker's Job

Ogden, UT (WorkersCompenstaion.com) — While a supervisor’s off-the-cuff negative statements about medical leave could help show retaliation, the supervisor’s actions can speak even louder. That was the case in Daimaru v. Wayfair, LLC, 2:21-cv-00660-JNP-CMR (D. […]
State of the P&C Reinsurance Marketplace
State of the P&C Reinsurance Marketplace

At the 2022 APCIA Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX, a panel discussed the current state of the property and casualty reinsurance marketplace. The panel included: Moderator: Dana Perino – Author and Host, Fox & Friends […]
NCCI Court Case Update, Alaska – October 2022
NCCI Court Case Update, Alaska – October 2022

Rusch v. Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium  On September 30, 2022, the Supreme Court of Alaska, in Rusch v. Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, ruled that the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Act (WC Act) authorizes the Workers’ […]
Claims Management 6 Obstacles Associated with a Mid-Term TPA Change
Claims Management 6 Obstacles Associated with a Mid-Term TPA Change

A TPA change can sometimes provide a renewed claims handling experience that benefits an insured, but compliance requirements and stakeholder communication issues may force an insured contemplating a change outside of a renewal period to […]
What Do You Think: Was Trucker's Stop for Dog Biscuits in Course of Employment?
What Do You Think: Was Trucker's Stop for Dog Biscuits in Course of Employment?

Tolleson, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Arizona, a traveling employee who substantially deviates from his employment loses the ability to collect workers’ compensation benefits for an injury he incurs at that time. But what if employee […]