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October 2019

October 31, 2019 - Haunted by Aliens, Secreted, and with Claims Denied

May 2019

May 27, 2019 - To A Veteran I Knew And Remember On Memorial Day

May 2018

May 25, 2018 - Growing Up In A Career Of Claims And Workers’ Compensation

October 2017

October 31, 2017 - The Day Of The Dead, When The Living And The Dead Party Together.
October 24, 2017 - Texas Executes Workers’ Compensation Claimant For Killing A Witness And His Son And Two Other Witnesses.

May 2017

May 4, 2017 - Work Comp’s Retrospective Medical Bill Review And Payment Models Are Costing Payers, Providers And Injured Workers

April 2017

April 19, 2017 - Communication Strategies That Lower Workers’ Comp Costs

February 2017

February 23, 2017 - Do High Heels Mean A Compensable Workers' Comp Claim?

January 2017

January 27, 2017 - 13 Indicators You Might Get Burned By Workers’ Comp Fraud
January 2, 2017 - Claim Adjusters, Their Motorcycles, Accidents and Claims

October 2016

October 13, 2016 - Settlements and Medicare in Workers’ Compensation Claims Handling--The difficult part.
October 5, 2016 - WCAB Rules Compromise and Release Can Waive Supplemental Job Displacement Voucher When There Is Good Faith Dispute On AOE/COE

August 2016

August 23, 2016 - Today's Treatment Issues In Workers' Compensation

March 2016

March 14, 2016 - Entering Their 17th Year Of Service, Hutch And Son Reminds You To Celebrate Tau Day. It's Twice Pi!
March 8, 2016 - DecisionUR Leaps Ahead With Colossal Cost Savings In Offering Software Enabled Utilization Review

August 2015

August 7, 2015 - Empathetic Communication Essential From Employers To Injured Workers For Minimizing Workers' Compensation Costs

April 2015

April 23, 2015 - With Tools Available, Claims Administrators Need To Implement Solutions To Stop Physician Dispensing Abuse
April 15, 2015 - Second Most Practiced Crime In The World: Insurance Fraud
April 1, 2015 - Revocation Of Blue Shield's Tax Exempt Status

February 2015

February 2, 2015 - Injured Worker’s Personal Problems Lead To Dangerous Workers' Comp Claims

September 2014

September 26, 2014 - Timing Is Crucial In Dental Trauma And To Keep Costs Down When An On-The-Job Injury

July 2014

July 17, 2014 - Drug Companies Use Of Cappers to Sell Prescription Drugs Can Go Beyond Tradition To Mobilize The California Insurance Fraud Prevention Act (IFPA)

December 2013

December 10, 2013 - Bring On The Holiday Party! 'Tis The Season. But Remember It's Still Work.

October 2013

October 21, 2013 - Medical Management Must Have Direction And Guidelines In Order To Efficaciously Contain Cost

July 2013

July 15, 2013 - Workers’ Compensation Audit Hurts Contractor. Drywall company lucky not to be prosecuted for workers' compensation insurance fraud.

March 2013

March 28, 2013 - Zalma on Rescission of Insurance in California-2013
March 24, 2013 - Ohio Physician Guilty of Workers' Comp Fraud

January 2013

January 1, 2013 - The Robin Hood Syndrome: Happy New Year 2013

November 2012

November 19, 2012 - Artifically Lowering Payroll To Avoid Premiums Fails. Are Per Diem Payments Payroll?

March 2012

March 26, 2012 - It is Still Time to Put A Stake Through the Heart of the Tort of Bad Faith

January 2012

January 27, 2012 - Incompetent Arsonist Will Serve Four Years. Successful Arson Requires Skill.

December 2011

December 6, 2011 - Insurance Criminal Unsuccessfully Sues His Lawyer After Conviction. Fraudster Has No Loyalty

November 2011

November 9, 2011 - From the Front Lines -- The Value of Discovery
November 1, 2011 - From the Front Lines -- Good Cause & the Continuance

May 2011

May 9, 2011 - The Triangle Shirt Waist Fire Of 1911--The Darkest Hour Before the Dawn Of Workers' Compensation In America

March 2011

March 29, 2011 - WCAB Panel Decision Upholds The Use Of Section 15.3 Of The Guides [Figure 15-19] To Support An Almarez/Guzman II Determination (Using Apples to Make Banana Pie and then calling it Red Velvet Cake)

February 2011

February 3, 2011 - Employers May Be Up In Smoke With Medical Marijuana In Workers’ Compensation Cases

December 2010

December 20, 2010 - A Christmas Fable of Fraud

July 2010

July 27, 2010 - Increase in Use of Electronics Creating “Intexticated” Workers
July 7, 2010 - Arson For Profit, A Book Review

June 2010

June 28, 2010 - MSDs, Preventive Health and You: Part III: Change Is Coming. Are You Onboard?
June 16, 2010 - MSDs, Preventive Health and You: Part II: Preventive Health—Around the Nation and in the Office

May 2010

May 21, 2010 - MSDs, Preventive Health and You: Part I, Musculoskeletal Disorders—The Other Chronic Condition

March 2010

March 12, 2010 - What Do Banner Ads Do For Vendors? What They Do Is Never Direct, But Yet It’s Powerful

March 2006

March 9, 2006 - The Right To Subrogation And Salvage

October 2005

October 18, 2005 - Functional Restoration

March 2005

March 29, 2005 - Federated Purchase Of Robinson's May Provokes Thoughts Of Pasadena Only

January 2005

January 26, 2005 - Federated Just Might Buy May Department Stores

May 2004

May 12, 2004 - For Gen X Owners, Baby Boomer Employees Represent A Great Opportunity

October 2003

October 27, 2003 - Six Reasons to Deny a Claim

February 2003

February 10, 2003 - Jaws, Part 2003

July 2002

July 2, 2002 - STALKING THE ADJUSTER
Old Game . . . New Player

April 2002

April 22, 2002 - Tensions, Aggravations, Workcompcentral Solution
April 2, 2002 - Northridge Earthquake Claims Going off the Richter Scale

March 2002

March 12, 2002 - King’s Two Claims Kingdoms—Forensics and CCC

January 2002

January 8, 2002 - The Entertaining Adjuster

November 2001

November 26, 2001 - Polynesian Renaissance

October 2001

October 29, 2001 - Rater of the Lost Code
October 3, 2001 - LA's other Zen Master

September 2001

September 20, 2001 - Dumpster Diving For Bonds

August 2001

August 29, 2001 - No Job too Tough for Robin the Energetic Claims Adjuster
August 14, 2001 - Senior Claims Analyst Mariane Nichols Likes the Action
August 9, 2001 - Claims Examiner HeavyWeight

July 2001

July 19, 2001 - HMO Vows to Unscrew-up Outdated Incentive Program
July 6, 2001 - Fraud: The Ones That Got Away

June 2001

June 25, 2001 - Joint Project Addresses WC Costs/Benefits:
How Much, How Soon?

May 2001

May 8, 2001 - Little Southern Hospitality in Rancho Cordova

April 2001

April 25, 2001 - Not Really Paranoid, but Just in Case...

March 2001

March 23, 2001 - 'Final Act' Yet to Be Scripted
March 23, 2001 - Sometimes, You Gotta Go to the Sports Pages
March 7, 2001 - Health/Safety and WC Issues Covered at Confab
March 5, 2001 - Ready for the Self-Insurance Administrator's Exam?

February 2001

February 28, 2001 - HIH All Out of Aces?
February 27, 2001 - Do We or Do We Not Understand?
February 22, 2001 - Something 'Tricky' Going on In California Workers' Comp?
February 22, 2001 - Alleged Travel Improprieties Further Taint Ex-commissioner
February 21, 2001 - 'Safety, Safety, Safety.. ' That's the Mantra on the Set
February 16, 2001 - Clerical Blunder: Will It Affect County Law Suit?
February 14, 2001 - Survival Of The Fittest
February 2, 2001 - Another Round of 'Musical Claims' in the California WC Industry
February 1, 2001 - West Coast CCC Convention Expanding in Scope, Popularity

January 2001

January 30, 2001 - SEIU, Local 347 Working to Reduce Workplace Injury
January 28, 2001 - Don't Look Now, but the Gray Geese Are Gaining