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health behaviors contribute to socioeconomic differences in mortality |
Money can't buy happiness, but it may help you live longer
By Teresa McLoughlin Rice, Esq.
The panoply of interrelated research on longevity appears to be coalescing around a consensus that socioeconomic status ("SES") is an important indicator of life expectancy. Data suggests that those on the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder tend to have a correspondingly lower life expectancy than those on the upper rungs. And the gap between the two has apparently been on the rise over the past 30 years. This trend, coupled with its societal implications and resultant policy decisions, has made the urgency of finding out what is driving these statistics more acute. A group of researchers, Arijit Nandi, Maria Glymour and S.V. Subramanian, set out to test the effect of health behaviors such as smoking, alcohol consumption and physical inactivity on socioeconomic differences in mortality...read more. |
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comppharma is bearish on compound drugs |
By Teresa McLoughlin Rice, Esq.
Prescriber beware! That's the takeaway message from a recent white paper, "Compounding is Confounding Workers' Compensation" authored by representatives of CompPharma's member Pharmacy Benefit Managers. Their research looks at the cost, safety and efficacy of compound drugs and concludes that the prudent course of action is to exercise all appropriate due diligence before prescribing and making payment for these drugs. First of all, what are compound drugs? There is, apparently, no nationally recognized official definition, but they are generally accepted to be either topical or sterile compound drugs which...read more. |
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LARSON'S SPOTLIGHT ON RECENT CASES |
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., our Feature National Columnist, is a leading commentator and expert on the law of workers' compensation.
 Wyoming: Jury Determination That Driver Was Within Course of Employment Not Binding on Administrative Hearings Office. Quoting Larson's and observing that the test of liability in the workers' compensation setting is not the relation of an individual's fault or negligence to an event, as it is within the tort arena, but rather the relationship of an event to the employment, the Wyoming Supreme Court held that...read more.
Ohio: Survivors of Worker Who Lapsed Into Coma Shortly Before Death Entitled to Scheduled Benefits in Additional to Death Benefits. Continuing a line of controversial decisions in which the survivors of a deceased employee are allowed to recover not only statutory death benefits following the death of the employee from work-related injuries or occupational diseases, but also scheduled loss of use benefits because, just prior to his death, the employee lapsed into a coma...read more.
New York: Bond Trader Denied Reduced Earnings Award in Spite of PTSD Related to September 11 Attack. A New York appellate court affirmed a decision of the state's Workers' Compensation Board that denied a corporate bond trader's application for an award of reduced earnings that he claimed were caused by a PTSD condition brought about by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack...read more.
New Jersey: Employee May Not Recover for Injuries in Employer-Leased Parking Area. Because an employer did not control the garage where an employee parked, her route of ingress and egress from the parking garage to her office, and the adjacent public street where she was injured, was still part of her daily commute and injuries she sustained were not compensable...read more. |
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Health Behaviors Contribute to Socioeconomic Differences in Mortality
Little Deuce Coupe...But Not on the Carrier's Dime in Delaware, by Cassandra Roberts, Esq. 
Missouri: No Safety Penalty for Woman Too Big for Her Safety Belt, by Martin Klug, Esq. 
California: WCAB Affirms Prior En Banc Decision Re: ADR 35.5(e) as Invalid, by Richard M. Jacobsmeyer, Esq. 
