Are workers getting workers' compensation for work-related COVID-19 illness?

• 07/27/20
• Terry Bogyo

Workers contracting the COVID-19 virus in the course of their employment are claiming workers’ compensation.  Just how many workers’ compensation claims for work-related coronavirus ...
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Paduda: COVID19 Isn't Costly

• 07/22/20
• Joe Paduda

Two recently released reports indicate medical costs for COVID-19 are rather modest. Fair Health released an analysis of charges and payments for COVID-related medical care. There’s a lot to unpack ...
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The Road to Resilience: Helping Injured Workers Take Charge Of Their Healing Process

• 07/20/20
• Claire Muselman

When people sustain injuries in a work environment, the physical body sustains an injury, and the emotional psyche does as well. There is an added strain from the incident occurring during work time or ...
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How COVID-19 Has Changed Workplace Cleaning

• 07/15/20
• Ed Reis

New information is released about COVID-19 on a daily basis, leaving many companies concerned about how they will implement a return-to-work plan that both keeps employees safe and allows for a productive ...
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Five Workers' Comp Drug Trends That Will Drive the Industry in 2020 and Beyond

• 07/13/20
• Phil Walls

Each year, with our Drug Trend Report, the myMatrixx clinical team, in partnership with the Express Scripts Lab, analyzes and distills the most significant data insights into one concise document for ...
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Workers' Compensation

• 07/08/20
• Tammy Bradly

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) typically starts with exposure to a critical incident. In order to meet the definition of PTSD, symptoms must last 30 days or more and disrupts normal life pursuits. It ...
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Frett v. State Farm: An Analysis

• 07/02/20
• Nathan C. Levy

The Georgia Supreme Court recently addressed the application of the “scheduled break” and “ingress/egress” doctrines in the case of Frett v. State Farm, No. S19G0447, 2020 Ga. LEXIS ...
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Professional Administration & Structured Settlements: The Perfect Pair in Claims Resolution

• 06/29/20
• Shawn Deane

Some things complement each other and together they’re the perfect pair: Jordan & Pippen, peanut butter & jelly, soap & water. You get the point. In the running for the top pair in the ...
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What Entities Can Avail Themselves of the MSP Private Cause of Action for Double Damages? U.S. Weighs In

• 06/24/20
• Heather Schwartz Sanderson

Just recently, the United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) submitted an Amicus Curiae Brief in the Eleventh Circuit in the MSP Recovery Claims, LLC v. Ace American Insurance Company, et ...
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