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affordable care act: a new body of law with lots of moving parts |
"Practical guidance on administering ObamaCare and other health plans"
By Teresa McLoughlin Rice, Esq.
 The acronym "ACA" has now joined the acronym "ADA" in the panoply of regulations with which companies must comply. As with any new and unfamiliar system, some companies may be uncertain as to what exactly is required of them. To that end, on April 22, 2014, LexisNexis held a webinar, Cutting Through the Noise: Practical Guidance on Administering ObamaCare and Other Health Plans designed to cut through the confusion. Over the course of an hour, panelists Cynthia Marcotte Stamer (a 25-year veteran of issues relating to employee benefits, health care and human resources matters) and Jaan Sidorov M.D. MHSA (general internist with over 20 years of experience in primary care, disease management and "population-based care coordination") gave practical advice to assist companies navigating through implementation of ACA-compliant insurance plans for their employees....read more.
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pain in the heartland |
The notorious case and convictions of pill mill doctor Stephen Schneider and his wife Linda
By Robin E. Kobayashi, J.D.
 Far too often we hear about pill mill doctors who are shut down or even arrested. Rachel Aviv's article "Prescription for Disaster" (The New Yorker, May 5, 2014) provides insight into the disturbing details of what led one such doctor, an osteopath named Stephen Schneider, to prescribe large amounts of opioids to many of his patients. It all started in 2005 when the Wichita medical examiner discovered a "cluster" of suspicious deaths of 16 men and women who had died in their sleep. All had received "scripts" for painkillers from the Schneider Medical Clinic, which had opened its doors in 2002 in Haysville, a working class suburb outside of Wichita. Aviv unfolds a tale of a man who began as a respected doctor and who took on Medicaid patients whom no one else wanted to see. At his clinic Schneider was courted daily by 12 or so different pharmaceutical companies which, he said, "enlightened" him about how to treat chronic pain...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.
 Maryland: Employee's Injuries Sustained While Dancing in Night Club Were Compensable. A Maryland appellate court held compensable a claim filed by a traveling employee who sustained injuries when he slipped on some liquid that had been spilled onto a dance floor at a nightclub located within his hotel...read more.
Florida: Use of False Documents to Obtain Employment is Alone Sufficient to Constitute Violation of Workers' Comp Fraud Statute; No Comp Claim Need be Filed. A Florida appellate court held that a trial court had improperly dismissed a charge under § 440.105(4)(b), Fla. Stat., where the State showed that the defendant had used someone else's social security card and identity to secure employment...read more.
Washington: Tasered Trooper's Tort Action Against State Patrol Not Barred By Exclusive Remedy Rule. A Washington state appellate court held that the state's exclusive remedy rule did not bar a trooper's tort action alleging deliberate intentional infliction of "certain injury" sustained when he was "shot" with a Taser during police training...read more.
Oklahoma: Slip and Fall Outside Premises Door Still Compensable in Spite of Personal Errand. An employee's purpose in leaving work is relevant in deciding whether going and coming injuries arise out of employment; it is not, however, dispositive....read more. |
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Affordable Care Act
California: The Assault on Independent Medical Review, by Corey Ingber, Esq. 
Missouri: Court Rejects Independent Tort Claim for Not Paying Comp Awards, by Martin Klug, Esq. 
