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Nashville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Recently, Tennessee updated its rules on utilization review, which is the evaluation of medical care services that are recommended by an authorized treating physician and provided to an injured employee. The […]

Lexington, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – If the Rolling Stones were writing about the ADA instead of parties and painting “it black” (whatever that means), they might have had something useful to say about employers’ obligation to […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Since the first of the year, there have been a 192 healthcare data breaches reported according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services breach portal. Comparatively, there were 134 […]

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- How much does medical treatment have to look like an independent medical examination to officially count as an IME? In Feldman v. New York City Transit Authority, 2023 WL 3099529 […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- This week is Nurses Week! I congratulate all the nurse case managers working in workers' compensation. As I have shared in the various articles I have written in Workercompenation.com, the nurse […]

Hickory, NC (WorkersCompensation.com). – Exclusivity clauses in workers’ compensation acts generally don’t apply when a worker assaults a coworker for purely personal reasons. The question whether the WCA was a surviving spouse’s sole option for […]

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Time is money, they say, and that's true when it comes to filing a court claim regarding a workers' compensation case. As a worker discovered in Caldwell v. Whirlpool Corp., 2023 […]

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A senior software engineer at the New York headquarters for Google apparently died by suicide last week, the second Google engineer to do so in recent months. Police said the […]