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New Report Shows Employers Offering High Incentives in Physician Recruitment
New Report Shows Employers Offering High Incentives in Physician Recruitment

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Analysts have been raising the alarm on projected physician shortages and the access to care issues that shortages could potentially create. In an effort to address physician shortages, employers are using […]
Do You Know the Rule? Tenn. Utilization Review
Do You Know the Rule? Tenn. Utilization Review

Nashville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Recently, Tennessee updated its rules on utilization review, which is the evaluation of medical care services that are recommended by an authorized treating physician and provided to an injured employee. The […]
Alternative Accommodation Provides Amazon Worker What he Needs
Alternative Accommodation Provides Amazon Worker What he Needs

Lexington, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – If the Rolling Stones were writing about the ADA instead of parties and painting “it black” (whatever that means), they might have had something useful to say about employers’ obligation to […]
Recent Study Suggests Healthcare Cyberattacks on Par with Regional Disasters
Recent Study Suggests Healthcare Cyberattacks on Par with Regional Disasters

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Since the first of the year, there have been a 192 healthcare data breaches reported according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services breach portal. Comparatively, there were 134 […]
IME Status Renders N.Y. Doctor’s Testimony, Reports Inadmissible
IME Status Renders N.Y. Doctor’s Testimony, Reports Inadmissible

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- How much does medical treatment have to look like an independent medical examination to officially count as an IME? In Feldman v. New York City Transit Authority, 2023 WL 3099529 […]
Case Management Focus: Celebrating Nurses Week
Case Management Focus: Celebrating Nurses Week

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- This week is Nurses Week! I congratulate all the nurse case managers working in workers' compensation. As I have shared in the various articles I have written in Workercompenation.com, the nurse […]
Animosity Behind N.C. Factory Worker’s Shooting Shows WCA Doesn’t Apply
Animosity Behind N.C. Factory Worker’s Shooting Shows WCA Doesn’t Apply

Hickory, NC (WorkersCompensation.com). – Exclusivity clauses in workers’ compensation acts generally don’t apply when a worker assaults a coworker for purely personal reasons. The question whether the WCA was a surviving spouse’s sole option for […]
Statute of Limitation Washes Out Ohio Worker’s Claim for Allowance
Statute of Limitation Washes Out Ohio Worker’s Claim for Allowance

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Time is money, they say, and that's true when it comes to filing a court claim regarding a workers' compensation case. As a worker discovered in Caldwell v. Whirlpool Corp., 2023 […]

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