25 Noteworthy Panel Decisions You Should Know About (July-December 2012). Here are the publisher's picks for the top noteworthy panel decisions recently reported in the LexisNexis services. The list is based upon feedback from our consultants about current topics and issues that are of interest to the entire workers' compensation community. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the noteworthy panel decisions cited below. Reminder: Be sure to check the status of a case before citing to it. Alda Mrozek-Payne, Applicant v. Spectre Air & Ground Freight, State Compensation Insurance Fund, Defendants . Permanent Disability; Rating; AMA Guide. WCAB rescinded WCJ's finding that applicant/vice president incurred 78 percent permanent disability as a result of injuries to her psyche, skin and in forms of headaches, chronic pain and fibromyalgia on 7/23/2001, when WCAB held that....read more.

On January 10, 2013, the White House announced that President Obama signed the Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act (SMART Act) into law. Insurance organizations, including the American Insurance Association, hailed the SMART Act as facilitating property-casualty insurers' compliance with Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Act Section 111 reporting. To read the bill, click here.