CMS Issues Updated WCMSA Reference Guide Version 2.6: Multiple Important Updates to the WCMSA Submission Process

• 08/02/17
• Heather Schwartz Sanderson

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an updated Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Reference Guide on July 31st, although ...
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Rousmaniere: Projecting Work Injuries to 2022

• 08/02/17
• Peter Rousmaniere

Where are work injuries heading, in number, economic sector, type of job and worker?  We can find answers through estimates, some no better than guesses.  Yet, ...
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Follow Orders, or Seek Relief

• 08/01/17
• David Langham

The Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal recently rendered an interesting decision in Rosenwater v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., 4D16-4015 [June 21, 2017]. The ...
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Lessons in Recusal and Disqualification

• 07/31/17
• David Langham

There are occasions when an assigned judge will no longer preside over a case. One example is when a judge grants a motion for "disqualification" (where some party(ies) ...
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The Adversary Judge

• 07/27/17
• David Langham

What is the judge's role in a legal proceeding? This is a question that I have heard time and again over the years. I heard it again recently at a program that involved ...
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Pot, Impairment and Car Crashes

• 07/25/17
• David Langham

I served on a panel at the Colorado workers' compensation conference this spring. IT was a tremendous program in an ideal setting at the base of Pikes Peak. Believe it ...
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Writ Protection as Opposed to Appeal

• 07/24/17
• David Langham

In June, the Florida First District Court published its opinion in Lewis v. Dollar Rent a Car. The case is instructive and interesting. Though it is an appellate ...
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Updates in Funding of Future Medical in Workers’ Compensation: Arizona Now Allows for Full and Final Settlements; Opana ER Removed from Market

• 07/24/17
• Heather Schwartz Sanderson

There are two recent updates which may impact workers’ compensation payers looking to finalize and foreclose future medical expenses and which additionally may ...
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Three Essential Elements of Any Return to Work Program

• 07/24/17
• J. Bradley Young

One of the more frustrating aspects of defending or managing a workers’ compensation program is getting injured workers back to work. Usually, we are faced with ...
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