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Dear Workers' Comp Community:
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workers' comp drug costs | |
 Obamacare's Impact on Workers' Compensation Prescription Drug Costs: Experts Predict Greater Drug Utilization and Offer Solutions, by John Stahl, Esq. The near certainty that provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a.k.a. Obamacare, will contribute to the increasing tendency to prescribe workers' compensation claimants opioids prompted Risk & Insurance to conduct an October 23, 2012 webinar entitled "Affordable Care Act & Expanding Narcotic Threats: Implications for Worker's Compensation Pharmacy Drug Benefits?" Dan Reynolds, a Managing Editor at Risk & Insurance, moderated the event. The speakers were Adam Seidner, MD, the National Medical Director for Travelers Insurance, and Dr. Michael Seise, the clinical services manager for Healthesystems. Read more.
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 Factual Issues Related to Fatal Shooting of Asphalt Company Employee at Convenience Store Preclude Employer's Summary Judgment Motion on Exclusivity Issue, by Thomas A. Robinson. A Georgia appellate court recently affirmed a trial court's denial of an employer's motion for summary judgment in connection with a wrongful death action filed by survivors of an asphalt company employee against the deceased's employer following a fatal shooting at a convenience store. The convenience store was closely associated with the asphalt operation, having some common ownership and serving as a fuel fill-up facility, among other things. Following the death, the employer's workers' compensation insurance carrier paid funeral expenses and when the survivors filed their civil suit, the employer claimed the case was barred by exclusivity. The appellate court agreed that ...Read more about this case and other cases on Unusual Risk, LHWCA & Average Weekly Wage, and Hearsay Rule.
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Workers' Comp Prescription Drug Costs
Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter: Teacher Who Could Not Teach Caught On Video Doing Strenuous Yard Work
Judge's Questioning of Co-Worker, Who Compared Applicant's Personality to Gordon Ramsay's, Didn't Deprive Applicant of Fair Trial, by California WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter. 
The Hurricane Sandy Post...and a Displaced Worker in Delaware, by Cassandra Robert, Esq. 
Missouri: Does Science Matter in Mo Comp?, by Martin Klug, Esq. 
