The workers’ compensation industry needs a serious pep talk. Many have lost sight of the original intent of workers’ compensation: to take care of the injured worker. When messaging is added in ...
Read More This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed decision to cover acupuncture for Medicare patients with chronic low back pain (cLBP) who are enrolled ...
Read More Sedgwick is the most successful business in the workers’ compensation industry, when evaluated from reported or estimated information about growth of business volume, number of employees, and investor ...
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Let’s go down memory lane …
I remember laying down to take a nap during long trips in the floor of my parent’s car, over the transmission hump, because of the low hum, slight vibration ...
Read More State workers’ compensation funds exert a broader impact on the workers’ comp market than most people assume. In 1990, there were about 20 state sponsored insurers, virtually entirely active only ...
Read More On Tuesday, an opinion on a familiar case came out of the Sixth Circuit. The case is Duncan v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., Civil Action No. 16-CV-12570, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106265 (E.D. Mich. June 25, ...
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Over the last several years, we have been providing updates regarding False Claims Act (FCA) litigation, filed both in Federal and NJ court, against Progressive Insurance Company, wherein a whistleblower, a ...
Read More On June 18, 2019, the Florida First District Court rendered Abreu v. Riverland Elementary, ___ So. 3d ____; No. 1D17-2755 (Fla. 1st DCA 2019). The injured worker there took issue with the application of ...
Read More For one-out-of-eight work injuries, doctors consider surgery as an option. One-third of lost time compensable claims involve one. I suggest we try to understand surgeries by looking at risks in perhaps a new ...
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