Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

What Do You Think? New York's exclusive remedy rule protects employers from most tort lawsuits. But what happens when the worker sues an entity that has a different name but is intimately connected to the […]

The Case Manager One of the most persistent—and costly—challenges in healthcare, particularly within workers’ compensation, is fragmentation. We often operate in silos: the treating physician focuses on diagnosis and treatment, specialists weigh in on their […]

Labor Landscape More than 40 percent of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s workers are losing their jobs, and 80 percent of employees who had gone on strike did not receive a job offer from the non-profit that […]

Federal Focus Because a federal worker failed to submit rationalized medical evidence establishing a causal link between her accepted injury and her requested prescription medication, ECAB found that OWCP properly denied authorization. Case B.V. and […]

Case File A pharmacy technician's settlement with Walmart, Inc. involved the same subject matter as her claim against the Second Injury Fund and “constitute[d] a final bar to any further rights arising under” the Iowa […]

Bits & Pieces What happens in Pennsylvania if a worker's goofing off is the reason he got hurt on the job? Is the injury still compensable? As Simply Research subscribers know, the Keystone State has […]

Compliance Corner When it comes to accepting or denying claims in Wyoming, state law sets out the rules and procedures for how an acceptance or denial happens and what notice must go along with it. […]

Compliance Corner Recognizing that limited education and advancing age impact anemployee’s post-injury earning capacity, an education and age factor,when applicable, shall be added to the income benefit multiplier. As Simply Research subscribers know, the multipliers […]