CMS Brings MSP Process 'Into the 21st Century'

• 03/18/19
• Nancy Grover

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Life may get a bit easier for stakeholders who use Medicare’s Secondary Payer Recovery Portal. As of April 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will allow full or ...

Employers Are Stymied by Worker Overdoses

• 03/18/19
• Chriss Swaney

Sarasota, FL (WorkercCompensation.com) - For the first time in U.S. history, a person is more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a motor vehicle crash, according to National Security Council (NSC) calculations. In ...

Workplace Fatalities Decrease Overall But Increase For Older Workers

• 03/18/19
• F.J. Thomas

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The diligence of employers providing a safer work place has paid off for some groups according to a March report released from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that ...

Illinois Passes Legislation Seen as Threat to Exclusive Remedy

• 03/15/19
• Nancy Grover

Springfield, IL (WiorkersCompensation.com) - Legislation on its way to Illinois’ governor would allow some workers to sue their employers for occupational injuries. Supporters say it rights a wrong in the system that ...

Nail Salons in CT Shutdown Due To Labor Violations

• 03/15/19
• Toni Sutton-Deangelico

Hartford, CT (WorkersCompensation.com)-Nail salon goers were probably surprised last week when they went to get manicures, pedicures and other beauty services. The Connecticut Labor Department shut down two dozen nail salons ...

Reasonable Fee May be No Fee

• 03/18/19
• Judge David Langham

An interesting decision of the Federal District Court for the Northern District was rendered in November 2018. The connection of that decision to workers' compensation may not be obvious to some. However, it determines attorney fees, which in a ...

MSPRP E-Payments Go Live On April 1, 2019

• 03/15/19
• Jean S. Goldstein

On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held a high level overview webinar of changes coming to the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal (MSPRP), as we recently discussed here on our blog.  The ...

The FDA’s Role in the Opioid Epidemic

• 03/14/19
• Mark Pew

This week I want to share two articles about opioids and how the FDA plays a part in their approval, regulation and maybe even their problem. The first article is the transcript of an interview by CBS’ 60 Minutes with a drug manufacturer about the FDA’s ...

Compound Objections and Hearsay

• 03/14/19
• Judge David Langham

One of the persistent challenges for trial attorneys is the admission of evidence to prove their claims or defenses. The admissibility of evidence in workers' compensation proceedings is controlled by the Florida Evidence Code ("FEC"). This ...

The Representation We Make

• 03/12/19
• Judge David Langham

In much of workers' compensation across America, benefits are delivered to injured workers administratively. There is an accident or illness, the employer is notified, and either that employer or an insurance company with which it has contracted ...

US DOL Signs Alliance with North Dakota Oil and Gas Industry Group to Promote Workplace Safety in Oil Fields

• 03/17/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Bismarck, ND (WorkersCompensation.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), National Institute for ...

AK Governor Announces Additional Boards and Commissions Appointments

• 03/17/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Juneau, AK (WorkersCompensation.com) - Alaska Governor Michael J. Dunleavy has announced the following appointments and reappointments to State of Alaska state boards and commissions. Alaska ...

Prison, Hefty Restitution Ordered for Cleveland Fraudster

• 03/16/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) - A Cleveland-area man was sentenced to seven months in prison Wednesday and ordered to repay nearly $246,000 in disability benefits he fraudulently received from the Ohio ...

Montana State Fund Cuts Workers’ Comp Premium Rates 8.6 Percent

• 03/16/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Helena, MT (WorkersCompensation.com) - The Montana State Fund Board of Directors approved Friday an 8.6 percent average reduction of workers’ compensation premium rates for about 25,000 employers ...

MEMIC Scholarship for Families of Injured Workers Now Accepting Applications

• 03/16/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Portland, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) - The MEMIC Group is now accepting applications for its Harvey Picker Horizon Scholarship Program for children and spouses of workers who have been ...

Tennessee Sausage Strategy is Something to Emulate

• 03/18/19
• Robert Wilson

The forming of policy, regulations and law in the world of workers’ compensation can be an intricate process. No matter the area of the law, they say that the making of regulatory and legislative content is like the making of ...

Attitude is Everything, Even When It's Not

• 03/12/19
• Robert Wilson

I spent this past weekend in the Four Corners area of Colorado and New Mexico, visiting my 99-year-old father. He unfortunately took a fall in early January, and while his injury, a broken coccyx, would’ve been painful but ...

Fatal News Is a Kick in the Groin for Telehealth

• 03/11/19
• Robert Wilson

No doubt about it. Telehealth is all the rage and presents tremendous potential for expanding access to quality care for a multitude of patients. The technology, which connects patients and physicians via high speed video connections, ...

What is Disability, Really?

• 03/07/19
• Robert Wilson

It is an issue we struggle with, and a difficult one to solve. Much of the activity in workers’ comp is centered around the concept of disability; what it is and how much it is worth for the individual who has been assigned with that designation. We ...

Will Cash Infusion Make Online Comp Purchases Easy as Pie?

• 03/06/19
• Robert Wilson

We’ve been saying for years that the traditional business model for the typical insurance agent would be threatened by technology. The last couple years have seen real shifts in that arena. Word this week that the ...

Hurt At Work, How Far Away Can They Send Me For Treatment?

• 03/18/19
• Mike Helfand

A caller to my office had a really good question about a very frustrating scenario he was in. He is an industrial painter and does a lot of overhead lifting and work in general.  One day, he felt a sharp pain in his ...

The Perez Trio of Cases and Proof of Permanent Partial Disability

• 03/18/19
• John H. Geaney

It is a remarkable coincidence that the three cases that best explain entitlement to permanent partial disability benefits in New Jersey all involve claimants with the last name of Perez.  The most important of ...

Emerging risks soon to make the radar

• 03/18/19
• Chris Mandel

A CEO I once worked for used to regularly ask me, “Tell me what I don’t know.” In his view, he could read the Wall Street Journal or any number of other typical sources of intelligence and information about running organizations, ...

Cousineau, Waldhauser & Kieselbach Rated #1 Nationally by Target Corporation

• 03/15/19
• National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

We are please to announce that Cousineau, Waldhauser, & Kieselbach's Target Corporation team received the highest rating nationally for Workers' Compensation for ...

Cousineau, Waldhauser, & Kieselbach Shareholder Natalie Lund to Co-Chair the 2019 Workers' Compensation Institute

• 03/15/19
• National Workers Compensation Defense Network (NWCDN)

Natalie Lund, Shareholder at Cousineau, Waldhauser, & Kieselbach has been asked to be the defense co-chair for the 2019 ...

CMS Brings MSP Process 'Into the 21st Century'

• 03/18/19
• Nancy Grover

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Life may get a bit easier for stakeholders who use Medicare’s Secondary Payer Recovery Portal. As of April 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will allow full ...

Tennessee Sausage Strategy is Something to Emulate

• 03/18/19
• Robert Wilson

The forming of policy, regulations and law in the world of workers’ compensation can be an intricate process. No matter the area of the law, they say that the making of regulatory and legislative content is like the ...

Employers Are Stymied by Worker Overdoses

• 03/18/19
• Chriss Swaney

Sarasota, FL (WorkercCompensation.com) - For the first time in U.S. history, a person is more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a motor vehicle crash, according to National Security Council (NSC) calculations. ...

US DOL Signs Alliance with North Dakota Oil and Gas Industry Group to Promote Workplace Safety in Oil Fields

• 03/17/19
• WorkersCompensation.com

Bismarck, ND (WorkersCompensation.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), National Institute for ...

Hurt At Work, How Far Away Can They Send Me For Treatment?

• 03/18/19
• Mike Helfand

A caller to my office had a really good question about a very frustrating scenario he was in. He is an industrial painter and does a lot of overhead lifting and work in general.  One day, he felt a sharp pain in ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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