Injured Women After Reform (iWAR) Seeks to Elect New Calif. Governor, End Discrimination Against Women Injured at Work

• 10/28/09
• LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation Law Center

 By Marguerite Sweeney, Attorney at Law, Redding, Co-chair of iWARoneBay.com.  On Thursday, October 8, 2009, women injured at work and women attorneys who are their advocates announced formation ...
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WorkersCompensation.com’s CompNewsNetwork Selected As A LexisNexis Top 25 Blog

• 10/28/09
• compnewsnetwork

We were very pleased this week to learn that the WorkersCompensation.com CompNewsNetwork Area has been selected as one of the “Top 25” Blogs for Workers' Compensation and Workplace Issues ...
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Compare And Monitor Your Injury Incident Rate

• 10/23/09
• Teresa Long | Institute of WorkComp Professionals

Asheville, NC (CompNewsNetwork) - Understanding your injury incident rate both within the company and relative to similar businesses is a valuable tool to monitor safety and improve profitability. An ...
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Jonathan Mook On EEOC’s Notice of Proposed Rules to Amend Current Americans with Disabilities Act Regulations (Podcast Transcript)

• 10/22/09
• LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation Law Center

 LexisNexis Podcast of Jonathan Mook on EEOC's Notice of Proposed Rules to Amend Current Americans with Disabilities Act Regulations Posted October 20, 2009 Interview Conducted by Steve Berstler ...
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Calif. Practitioners: Don’t Forget to Exhaust All Administrative Remedies Before Appealing

• 10/21/09
• LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation Law Center

By Reid L. Steinfeld, Esq. and Richard Boggan, J.D. Petition for reconsideration (“Recon”): A legal process to appeal a decision issued by a workers' compensation judge. Heard by the ...
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Ask the Doctor? - Utilization Review in Delaware

• 10/21/09
• LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation Law Center

By Cassandra Roberts, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP Today I have the pleasure of hosting guest blogger Michael Owen, Esquire of the Wilmington insurance defense law firm of Chrissinger ...
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Just Say No? A Retrospective of a Few Recent Occupational Disease Cases That Ended with an Epidemic of Denials

• 10/16/09
• LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation Law Center

 By Cassandra Roberts, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP In the claimant-friendly jurisdiction of The First State where the standard of compensability is considered decidedly low by practitioners ...
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6.2 Million Reasons to Implement a Proactive Workers’ Compensation Return to Work Program

• 10/16/09
• LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation Law Center

 By Margaret Spence, President and CEO, Douglas Claims & Risk Consultants, Inc. Employers are so focused on managing workers compensation injuries that they often forget that the injury itself is ...
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A Close Encounter With A Table Saw – Alternative WPI Ratings Post-Almaraz-Guzman II

• 10/16/09
• compnewsnetwork

By Robert G. Rassp, Law Offices of Robert G. Rassp The following is a real-life example of how to figure out a WPI rating. Strict rating:  15% WPI (see below) Alternative rating method A:  Add ...
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