Subrogation in Workers' Compensation Claims

• 02/18/19
• Bruce Burk

Sarasota, FL (workersCompensation.com) - When a workers’ compensation accident happens, one of the first things which is relevant in the claim is whether or not there is any subrogation potential. It is important to understand the ...

NSAIDS Most Prescribed, Dermatologicals Most Costly Drugs in California WC System

• 02/18/19
• Nancy Grover

Opioids previously comprised nearly one-third of the medications prescribed in California’s workers compensation system. Now they account for about 18 percent, according to researchers. While ...

Asbestos-Related Workers' Compensation Claims Filed at U-Montana Campus

• 02/18/19
• Toni Sutton-Deangelico

Missoula, MT (WorkersCompensation.com) - Surprisingly, every day as many as 1.3 million people in the United States are exposed to a rather significant amount of asbestos in the workplace, according ...

After Parkland: Gun Violence Changing the Face of Workers’ Compensation

• 02/15/19
• Liz Carey

Orlando, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – On February 14, 2018, Nikolas J. Cruz, 19, entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in tactical gear and heavily armed, and opened fire on students as classes were ...

Motor Vehicle Deaths Still Top 40k, Despite Slight Decrease

• 02/15/19
• Nancy Grover

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Motor vehicle-related incidents are the leading cause of workplace fatalities. Workers in eight jurisdictions may be even more at risk than in prior years. A new report says while ...

Can a Medicare Advantage Plan Assert a Greater Right of Recovery for Conditional Payments than Traditional Medicare? Optum Seems to Think So

• 02/14/19
• Heather Schwartz Sanderson

The Non-Group Health Plan (NGHP) industry is not only experiencing increased recovery demands from Medicare Advantage Plans (MAPs) ...

How can they Both Increase?

• 02/13/19
• Judge David Langham

A headline in the summer of 2018 caught my eye. Fox News reported Exercise and obesity both on the rise in America. As one who has struggled with weight for decades, and for whom exercise is a hated necessity, that headline screamed ...

Is there a Benefit?

• 02/11/19
• Judge David Langham

The January 2019 issue of the National Association of Workers' Compensation Judiciary's Lex and Verum includes an intriguing article regarding attorney fees: How Many Slices are in a Twelve Inch Pie? The author is one of the Virginia ...

No One can do it for Me

• 02/08/19
• Judge David Langham

In recent years, I have seen the Alliance of Women in Workers' Compensation programs at various conferences. Their programs include the motivational, but also substantive topics of interest to managers and company principals. The Alliance was ...

CMS Targets Medical Providers, 'Other Interested Stakeholders' in Upcoming Part D Opioid Overutilization Policies Call

• 02/07/19
• Jean s. Goldstein

Next week, CMS will be holding a telephone call to discuss and answer questions regarding CMS’ new opioid policies for Medicare drug ...

NSAIDs Overtake Opioids As The Top Workers' Comp Drug Group; Dermatologicals Are Most Costly

• 02/17/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Oakland, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - A new California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) study finds that non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) have ...

OH: Receptionist Owes BWC $19K After Fraud Conviction

• 02/17/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) - A Bellefontaine woman who worked as a receptionist while claiming to be disabled from work owes the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation nearly $19,000 following her ...

Worker Must Prove Injury in Uninsured Employer Tort Claim

• 02/17/19
• WorkCompAcademy.com

Sacramento, CA - Evangelina Ruiz began work as a legal assistant with Carter and Carter, APLC in 2007 at their office in Corona. Christopher Carter specialized in mold and mold remediation cases.In ...

Receipt-Handling May Boost Cashiers’ Exposure to Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals: Study

• 02/14/19
• National Safety Council

Toronto — Handling receipts may boost cashiers’ exposure to bisphenol A and bisphenol S – two chemicals with possible links to cancer and other adverse health effects ...

Ohio BWC Pledges Additional $500,000 to Help Law Enforcement Purchase Body Armor

• 02/14/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) - Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation Administrator/CEO Stephanie McCloud, Governor Mike DeWine and Attorney General Dave Yost today announced an ...

From Social Media to Litigation Privilege, The ABA Mid-Winter Miami Seminar Has Something for Everyone

• 02/15/19
• Robert Wilson

The American Bar Association 2019 Workers' Compensation Midwinter Seminar and Conference is scheduled for March 14 thru 16, at the beautiful and historic Biltmore Hotel in ...

In Phoenix, WCRI Will Give Itself Something Else to Study

• 02/13/19
• Robert Wilson

The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute's (WCRI) Annual Issues and Research Conference is breaking over 30 years of tradition this year. Held annually in Boston every year since WCRI was founded, they have broken ...

The Adjusters Lament: When a Provider Lies, a Puppy Dies

• 02/12/19
• Robert Wilson

We spend a great deal of time talking about ways that the workers’ compensation system could be improved. Much of that conversation centers around how adjusters and claims professionals could do their job better; how they ...

Jeff Bezos and Other Scummy Social Media Scammers

• 02/11/19
• Robert Wilson

With the advent of social media, we find ourselves dealing with an ever-increasing quantity of suspicious and annoying spammers and scammers. People like Jeff Bezos and others are clogging our social media accounts asking to be our ...

E-Scooters Could be the Death of Your Company

• 02/08/19
• Robert Wilson

Colorado workers’ compensation insurer Pinnacol Assurance issued a news release last week urging employers to reconsider their employee’s use of electronic scooters. It seems that use of these now ubiquitous urban ...

CBT and Smartphones: Study Shows Power of CBT on Brain Changes

• 02/15/19
• Michael Coupland

There is a little known addiction that could be impacting your organization in negative ways. It affects people from all walks of life — young and old; rich and poor; men and women. It creates neurochemical ...

Research Roundup - or, stuff you don’t have to read because I did

• 02/15/19
• Joe Paduda

There’s so much great research published every day – and a lot of crap too – that it is impossible to figure out A) what should I read and B) what does it mean. So, here’s what I found worth ...

Ten Light Duty Work Ideas

• 02/15/19
• Rebecca Shafer, JD

So you have decided to provide some light duty or transitional work for injured workers to decrease wage loss expense.  First of all, congratulations! This is the first step in decreasing claims costs. The wage expense in a comp claim is most ...

An Opioid That Doesn’t Cause Addiction Or Overdose? Is This Really Possible?

• 02/15/19
• Michael Nguyen PharmD

Like all drugs, opioids can cause side effects. However, beyond the commonly reported effects such as nausea, constipation, dizziness and sedation, there is one side effect that presents the biggest ...

How to Use a Medicare Set-Aside Allocation (and, how NOT to)

• 02/15/19
• Medivest

Administering Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) funds properly is a daunting task for most. Nuance in the Medicare formulary, ignorance about MSAs in the provider’s billing department, and complexity in medical coding all conspire ...

Asbestos-Related Workers' Compensation Claims Filed at U-Montana Campus

• 02/18/19
• Toni Sutton-Deangelico

Missoula, MT (WorkersCompensation.com) - Surprisingly, every day as many as 1.3 million people in the United States are exposed to a rather significant amount of asbestos in the workplace, ...

NSAIDS Most Prescribed, Dermatologicals Most Costly Drugs in California WC System

• 02/18/19
• Nancy Grover

Opioids previously comprised nearly one-third of the medications prescribed in California’s workers compensation system. Now they account for about 18 percent, according to ...

Subrogation in Workers' Compensation Claims

• 02/18/19
• Bruce Burk

Sarasota, FL (workersCompensation.com) - When a workers’ compensation accident happens, one of the first things which is relevant in the claim is whether or not there is any subrogation potential. It is important to ...

Worker Must Prove Injury in Uninsured Employer Tort Claim

• 02/17/19
• WorkCompAcademy.com

Sacramento, CA - Evangelina Ruiz began work as a legal assistant with Carter and Carter, APLC in 2007 at their office in Corona. Christopher Carter specialized in mold and mold remediation cases.In ...

NSAIDs Overtake Opioids As The Top Workers' Comp Drug Group; Dermatologicals Are Most Costly

• 02/17/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Oakland, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - A new California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) study finds that non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) have ...

Heather Schwartz Sanderson

Heather Schwartz Sanderson, Esq., MSCC, CHPE, CLMP, CMSP Heather is Chief Legal Officer for Franco Signor LLC, the nation's compliance authority for Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) matters. She has lectured on MSP compliance to the workers’ ...

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Judge David Langham

David Langham is the Deputy Chief Judge of Compensation Claims for the Florida Office of Judges of Compensation Claims at the Division of Administrative Hearings. He has been involved in workers’ compensation for over 25 years as an attorney, an ...

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Jon Coppelman

Since 1990 Jon Coppelman has trained thousands of business owners from Main Street to Fortune 500 on the fundamentals of workers’ compensation cost control. From 2006 to 2012 he was a principal writer for the Workers’ Comp Insider, LynchRyan’s ...

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Terry Bogyo

Terry is an active researcher, speaker and commentator on workers compensation issues. Now retired, he was the Director of Corporate Planning and Development for WorkSafeBC. His responsibilities included environmental scanning, strategic planning ...

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Nancy Grover

Nancy Grover is the Director, Media Services for WorkersCompensation.com. She comes to our company with more than 35 years as a broadcast journalist and communications consultant. Grover’s specialties include insurance, workers’ compensation, ...

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Liz Carey

Liz Carey has worked as a writer, reporter and editor for nearly 25 years. First, as an investigative reporter for Gannett and later as the Vice President of a local Chamber of Commerce, Carey has covered everything from local government to the ...

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Bruce Burk

Bruce Burk is an experienced workers' compensation defense attorney located in South Florida. He has also worked in civil litigation and criminal defense, handling more than 40 trials, both jury and non-jury. Burk received his law degree from ...

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Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson is the CEO of WorkersCompensation.com, and author of the award winning blog, "From Bob's Cluttered Desk". Bob is an accomplished presenter for the workers' comp industry, and we are lucky to have him. We don't ...

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Chriss Swaney

Chriss Swaney is a freelance reporter who has written for Antique Trader Magazine, Reuters, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, the Burlington Free Press, UPI, The Tribune-Review and the Daily Record.

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Peter Rousmaniere

Peter Rousmaniere is widely known throughout the workers’ compensation industry, both for his writing and consulting experience. Based in the picture perfect New England town of Woodstock, VT, he is a regular on the conference circuit, and is deeply ...

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Toni Sutton

Toni Sutton is a freelance writer from Brooklyn, NY now based in San Diego, CA. She’s been writing for more than 10 years covering topics from business, technology, health, and everything in between. When she’s not hunting for a great story or that ...

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F.J. Thomas

F.J. Thomas has worked in healthcare business for more than fifteen years in Tennessee. Her experience as a contract appeals analyst has given her an intimate grasp of the inner workings of both the provider and insurance world. Knowing first hand ...

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