The health care supply chain is experiencing a multitude of disruptions, delays, wage pressures and shortages, some of which have an impact on workers’ compensation medical care.
A recent webinar delved into the biopsychosocial treatment model and return to work, with special emphasis on identifying the presence of psychosocial risk factors in poor outcomes.
With the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously holding that employers and insurance companies must pay for medical marijuana when ordered by the court, and the Minnesota Supreme Court holding that federal law preempts the state’s medical marijuana law, companies and claims management professionals are stuck trying to sort out a legal turf war fit for a mafia movie.
It’s been almost two years since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported. In that time, we’ve experienced a master class in just how unprepared the U.S. was for a global pandemic.
Legislation being hailed for allowing faster workers’ compensation claims settlements was signed into law last week by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf. It changes the requirements regarding the signing of legal paperwork for those workers eligible for a C&R – a Compromise and Release settlement.
From whether COVID-19 is reimbursable to developments in medical marijuana’s compensability, it has been a busy year for workers’ comp decisions at both the state and federal level.
No employer wants to find themselves in the midst of a workers compensation matter, especially when the employee in question was injured through no fault of the employer. <br /><br />This problem starts with California’s notoriously employee-friendly workers compensation rules, which requires employers to pay for employees’ medical treatment if they are hurt on the job. This holds true even in cases where the employer is not at fault and injuries were caused by a negligent third party.<br /><br />Fortunately, California also gives businesses or their workers compensation carriers the right to subrogate against those negligent third parties to recover any benefits they might have paid to injured workers. Through additional litigation, employers can seek reimbursement for these paid benefits that were made on behalf of an injured employee.
Finally, life felt normal again. No video conferences. No remote meetings. Just a smattering of masks. This year for the Workers’ Compensation Institute in Orlando, their behemoth of an educational conference rose like a Phoenix from the desolate ashes of a detested pandemic
For years experts have been talking about the "gray tsunami" that threatened the workers’ compensation industry. The crushing wave said to be coming was not one of earth temblors and overwhelming waves, but rather a current of retirement from an aging and long-entrenched workforce
While the traditional view of claims is that it sits towards the back of the value chain, that is changing, a speaker said Wednesday during KPMG’s 30th annual insurance conference. The evolving role of claims was one of four macro (or high-level) trends discussed during the Reimagining Operations session at the virtual conference.
In his 2015 stand-up special The Comeback Kid, stand-up comedian John Mulaney joked that the government had ‘[become] like cool parents’ when it came to marijuana. It’s a claim many an onlooker would agree with.
The death of an employee is certainly a difficult matter for an employer, even when the employee’s death happened away from the workplace and was in no way related to work.
