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January 2012 |
- New Workers' Compensation Laws for 2012
- Can You Take a Credit For a Severance Agreement
- Hearing Representatives and the Rules of Professional Conduct
- Service Please. Failure to Serve Settlement Documents a Cause for Concern?
- The 240 Week Bright Line For Death Benefit Claims
- WCAB Panel decision: No to Expedited Hearings for UR Determinations
- The Interview: Can I Ask That Question? Business Necessity, Age and Sex
- When was the Last Time a Chiropractor Paid You?
- Working or Calendar Days? Five Day Notice Requirements
- Q&A
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October 2011 |
- Legislative Updates: Employment
Law and Workers’ Compensation
- Violence in the Workplace: My
Disability Made Me Do It
- Reacquisition of MPN Control
- 100% Disabled Doesn’t Always
Mean 100% Unemployable
- Subrogation Against the
Government: Act Fast or You Could Lose Your Rights
- Subpoena: Give Me Everything
- Howell Decision Disallows
Plaintiff’s Phantom Charges
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July 2011 |
- The 104 Week-Rule: Understanding the Distinction
between LC 4656(c)(1) and LC 4656(c)(2)
- Volunteers: Employees or not?
- Non-MPN Reports: Inadmissible Evidence
- Concerns over DWC Medical Unit Letter on Panel QME
Issues
- Treatment Referrals: Who Can Make Them?
- Experience Modifications by the WCIRB:
Establishment, Promulgation and Assignment
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April 2011 |
- Applicant’s Increased Burden in Establishing a Labor
Code 132a Claim
- Ability of the Court to Reopen the Record May be
Limited
- MPN - Notice, Notice, Notice
- Change of Venue: Too late to File?
- Workers’ Compensation Fraud: The Warning Signs
- Beware of Hold Harmless Language in Settlements
- Utilization Review: Request for Authorization
- A Deposition Learning Lesson
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January 2011 |
- Welcome to 2011
- Layoffs and Labor Code §4658 Decreases
- The New LeBoeuf Argument: Labor Code section 4662
- Defining New and Further Disability in a Petition to
Reopen
- The Laches Defense
- Vocational Rehabilitation Rears its Ugly Head Again
- California Workers' Compensation Insurance Outlook
2011: An Attorney and Employer's Perspective
- Temporary Partial Disability: What Happens When the
Applicant Voluntarily Quits?
- Understanding the Supplemental Job Displacement
Benefit
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October 2010 |
- The Importance of Employer Involvement
- To Advance or Not to Advance: The New PD Problem
- Bigge Crane: Defining the Players in a S&W case
- Are You an Employer Without Even Knowing It?
- Utilization Review: Timelines and Denial Issues
- Timing and the Effective Use of Subrogation Credits
- Chiropractic Treatment: Defenses and Requirements?
- Guzman: Now What?
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July 2010 |
- A Case to Die For?
- A Permanent Disability Increase/Decrease Update
- Communicating With Your Panel QME Can Result in a
Replacement Panel
- Defendants’ Right to LC §4060 Med-Legal Exams After
a Denial
- Increasing the Role of the WCJ in Rating Permanent
Disability
- The Increasing Role of Medicare in Claims
- Tips on Submitting Settlement Documents in EAMS
- Understanding Issues with Case Venue
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April 2010 |
- 2010 Relevant Statutory and Regulatory Changes
- Labor Code §4600.2: Are You Missing the Potential
Savings?
- Understanding the Cost of Living Adjustment after
Duncan
- Applicant’s Burden of Proof for Rebutting the
Permanent Disability Rating Schedule
- Understanding the Labor Code §4658 15%
Increase/Decrease
- The Current Procedure for a Request for Spinal
Surgery
- Tips on Requesting a Panel of Qualified Medical
Evaluators
- Your Failure to Dance May Cost You Money!
- Determining Liability for Injuries Resulting from
Travel to Medical Appointments
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January 2010 |
- PKNW Successfully Defends Against Lien Claimant on
MPN Defense
- A Possible Stay on Ogilvie Cases?
- Avoiding Problems with EDD
- Defining Reasonable Medical Probability
- Horseplay: Still a Viable Defense Work Injury
- In Defense of Psyche Claims
- Subrogation Concerns: 1st District increases the
liability for, as well as the potential number of
Defendants in, Construction Site Injury Cases
- Walk-thrus and the In Pro Per
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October 2009 |
- Changes in the PQME Process: What you need to know
- Deconstructing Premier Medical Management
- Medical Liens: Are you paying for unprofessional conduct?
- Subrogation: Credit Rights and Closing Cases
- TThe Sun May Not Have Set Yet on Vocational Rehabilitation
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July 2009 |
- California Court of Appeals Upholds Benson
- The End of Vocational Rehabilitation?
- Interpreting Kunz: determining reasonableness
- Rebutting the AMA Guidelines
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