A policy analyst from the US contacted me a few weeks ago and asked a disarmingly simple question. “How much does Canada spend on medical care for work-related injury?” The question ...
Read More At last, one of the components of the SMART Act is set to take effect on July 10, 2013. The SMART Act, also known as H.R. 1845, provides that: six months after enactment (signed by President Obama on January ...
Read More Last week, I participated in a research project sponsored by the Pacific Alzheimer's Research Foundation and Canadian Institute of Health Research. It was conducted by the Pacific Parkinson's ...
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In a case out of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, In Re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation v. General Electric Company, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 76346 (May 8, 2013), the parties ...
Read More My last post on maximum insurable earnings for workers' compensation coverage generated a lot of email and questions. Several people had responses like this one:
“…it does not ...
Read More A liability case out of a District Court in Louisiana, Benoit v. Neustrom, 2013 U.S. Dist. Lexis 55971 (April 17, 2013), issued an order wherein a Liability Medicare Set-Aside (LMSA) was apportioned and ...
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A reader of this blog recently pointed out that workers with relatively high earnings may not be adequately covered by workers' compensation. One's expenses tend to parallel one's net ...
Read More Medicare Advantage Plans (MAPs), also known as Medicare Part “C”, are private insurance plans which provide Medicare benefits to beneficiaries. A beneficiary may opt to receive their Part A and B ...
Read More The impact of the Affordable Care Act is just beginning to be felt. There is anything but a becalmed marketplace that is trying to determine how the law is supposed to operate on a daily basis, and its ...
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