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28 Jun 2016, 4:44 am
**********On Tuesday, August 25 at 11:15 ET I will moderate a panel at the WCI Conference in Orlando, FL on the topic, "The Image of Workers’ Compensation and What Industry Can Do About It. [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 4:44 am
**********On Tuesday, August 25 at 11:15 ET I will moderate a panel at the WCI Conference in Orlando, FL on the topic, "The Image of Workers’ Compensation and What Industry Can Do About It. [read post]
12 May 2016, 5:30 am
Compliance with this newer standard is essential in order for WCIS to be able to collect data regarding compound and repackaged drugs. [read post]
29 Apr 2016, 12:12 pm
Parents spend a lot of time choosing the right day care facility. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 4:07 am
I know that one night of education, camaraderie, and celebration isn't going to solve the problems we face in workers' compensation.But it's a start.Every conference I go to around the nation there is a recurring theme: silos.Each independent interest in workers' compensation has their own conference or two.Attorneys that represent injured workers have their own conferences; Employers have their own conferences; Physicians and the medical community have their own… [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 4:44 am
A recurring theme at the 70 Annual WCI Educational Conference in Orlando, FL this week was the media attacks on workers' compensation.General media has taken an interest in work comp. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 4:56 am
It was generally a hundred degrees with nearly 100% humidity every day of the 70th Annual WCI Educational Conference in Orlando, FL.That weather yesterday produced flight suspending thunderstorms so many people got stranded in the Land of Disney, including WorkCompCentral staffers (but not me - I got out early in the morning before convective activity could propagate).According to National Geographic, "dog days refer to the dog star, Sirius, and its position in the heavens," the… [read post]
26 Aug 2015, 4:26 am
Four One Mike over the LA basin managing risk...Heading back to California today from the 70th annual WCI Educational Conference in Florida, it's been a week since Bonanza Six Six Four One Mike has been in the air and it's been 8 days since I checked up on Mom.Last week Mom was still dealing with a bit of pneumonia in the lower left lobe of her lung. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 4:28 am
The "Bloggers' Panel" convenes this afternoon at the WCI Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 4:00 am
WCI has Arabic, English, and French versions of the 2014 Egyptian constitution, the interim constitution of Thailand as published in the official gazette in Thai and in English translation, and the 2014 Constitution of the Tunisian Republic in Arabic, English, and French. [read post]
17 Feb 2015, 1:59 pm
[1] [WCI] * A comprehensive look at Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. [read post]
31 Aug 2014, 3:01 am
State of Florida, case no 11-13661 CA 25.Last week in Orlando (at the WCI conference where thousands discussed all that is Florida workers' compensation), I heard a great deal about this decision. [read post]
28 Jul 2014, 4:30 am
Workers' compensation laws get rewritten, reinterpreted, are the subject of politics and distorted through administrative regulation.And when a state's workers' compensation laws come in conflict with Newton's Laws of Physics, it's a huge fight ...Sir Isaac NewtonIt's no secret that I have been of the opinion that workers' compensation is in trouble, not just in California, but across the nation, because in my observation the laws are failing to deliver any longer… [read post]
11 Oct 2013, 4:18 am
But the state is also experiencing pressure from Business to limit indemnity durations.Injured workers in Pennsylvania received temporary disability benefits for an average of 25 weeks, compared to 17 weeks in Michigan, 20 weeks in Virginia and 23 weeks in Massachusetts.For the past two years, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry has called for reforms that would require medical-treatment guidelines, mandate that doctors perform drug tests on claimants receiving opioids and require… [read post]
11 Oct 2013, 4:18 am
But the state is also experiencing pressure from Business to limit indemnity durations.Injured workers in Pennsylvania received temporary disability benefits for an average of 25 weeks, compared to 17 weeks in Michigan, 20 weeks in Virginia and 23 weeks in Massachusetts.For the past two years, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry has called for reforms that would require medical-treatment guidelines, mandate that doctors perform drug tests on claimants receiving opioids and require… [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 4:17 am
At WCI the GA presentation (as did many of the other less acutely affected state presentations) remarked how difficult the job is to draft and get approval of regulations that comply with the intent of the law. [read post]
20 Aug 2013, 7:12 am
If there was one theme that over road any other in the Blogger's Panel session at the 68th Annual WCI Conference in Orlando, FL yesterday, it was that workers' compensation in general has become so complex, so micro-managed by regulation and law, so distant from its original purpose, that there is no where for the cost of maintaining the system but to go up. [read post]
19 Aug 2013, 3:59 am
This morning I'm part of a panel of "bloggers" at the WCI 68th Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida.My fellow bloggers, Bob Wilson of WorkersCompensation.com, Mark Walls of Marsh and the LinkedIn Work Comp Analysis group, and I are going to be asked to give opinion on several topics including the Affordable Care Act's impact on work comp, opioids and the nation, state reforms, and the cost of medical in the system.Folks expect us to battle with disparate opinions. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 4:39 am
The WCI conference is infamous for huge suite parties hosted by some of the big Florida defense firms. [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 7:53 am
Steve represented the taxpayer, WCI Steel, Inc., in this case. [read post]
