Rousmaniere: Presumption Laws: Sausage Making On Display

• 10/16/19
• Peter Rousmaniere

Half of the states have enacted so-called presumption laws, designed to ease access to workers’ compensation coverage for specific health conditions, passed usually on behalf of specific classes of ...
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9th Circuit Court of Appeal Rules that CIGA, a Guaranty Fund, is not Subject to Medicare Secondary Payer Act Obligations

• 10/14/19
• Heather Schwartz Sanderson

Franco Signor has been following the CIGA (California Insurance Guaranty Association) litigation filed against HHS/CMS for some time. CIGA is California’s largest workers’ compensation provider ...
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Addition of Open Debt Report Function to the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal and Two New Portal User Guides Issued

• 10/10/19
• Jean S. Goldstein

You may have seen our blog post on Friday, regarding an alert from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding two upcoming webinars to highlight a new electronic attestation ...
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Back to the Future: Embryonic Gig Worker Benefit Programs Look Like Texas Injury Benefit Plans 30 Years Ago

• 10/07/19
• Bill Minick

You know or see them every day: that Uber driver that dropped you off, the maid that cleaned your friend’s home, the hair stylist who cuts your hair, the tech who just fixed your ...
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Rousmaniere: Burn Care is Improving

• 10/02/19
• Peter Rousmaniere

America had a long and bloody history of injury carnage at work. The workers’ compensation system was created 100 years ago in part due to public concern about deaths and disabling injuries among rail, ...
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South Carolina District Court "Joins Sister Courts" in Allowing MAOs to Maintain an MSP Double Damages Private Cause of Action Against Primary Plans

• 09/26/19
• Hether Schwartz Sanderson

Recall last year in 2018 we blogged that Humana Medicare Advantage had filed an action against Bi-Lo, LLC, a grocery retailer, in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina for declaratory ...
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Rousmaniere: Workers' Comp explained in 800 words

• 09/18/19
• Peter Rousmaniere

Workers’ compensation is a safety net which helps people after an injury at work. For the worker, the originally expressed purpose was to fairly compensate them for their injuries. More recently the ...
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September 11th Remembered - Tribute To Marsh And AON

• 09/11/19
• Rebecca Shafer

Everyone remembers where they were the when they learned the World Trade Center crumbled to the ground. I was scooping ice cream at the Mansfield Center General Store. Having recently retired from the risk ...
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Rousmaniere: Artificial Intelligence Has Entered The Building

• 09/04/19
• Peter Rousmaniere

Artificial intelligence is already at work in the workers’ compensation industry, through the use of what is called machine learning. It will likely take years before machine learning becomes a staple ...
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