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by Roberto Ceniceros
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Pill mill ups and downs

8:14 am, Feb. 8

Everywhere one looks lately measures are underway to reduce the prescribing of opioids or highly addictive narcotic pain pills to workers compensation claimants and the public in general.Lansing, Mich.-based Accident Fund Holdings Inc., for example, announced this week that it launched a narcotics ...MORE

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When is someone impaired by marijuana?

8:04 am, Feb. 6

How recently must an injured worker have smoked marijuana to be impaired enough to deny them workers compensation benefits is an interesting question courts across the country may eventually have to answer.I bring this up for a few reasons including the increased ease of obtaining the drug, and a ...MORE

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Humorous argument, serious court diss

5:34 pm, Feb. 1

A workers compensation claimant seen drinking and partying in photos posted on Facebook and Myspace called the evidence against his case “a disgrace to the dignity of the workers' compensation proceedings and the legal system.”His argument against allowing use of the photos to deny his ...MORE

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A great way to help soldiers and children

The Disability Management Employer Coalition's monthly bulletin suggests a way to support U.S. troops and help children in Afghanistan via an Army outreach program.Fellow DMEC member and MetLife employee, LTC Dan Arkins of the Army National Guard, is deployed in Afghanistan and his brigade is ...MORE

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Insurance executives get scalped

12:54 pm, Jan. 18

Eight surplus lines company chief executives shaved their heads on stage this week to raise more than $700,000 in donations for childhood cancer research.They were part of a team named “Expired Coverage” that they formed to raise money for St Baldrick's Foundation. The charity has ...MORE

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More states should follow these examples

8:08 am, Jan. 16

A new Washington state program partially reimburses employers for providing light-duty jobs to injured workers, Washington's Department of Labor & Industries announced.Although the program was just launched, L&I said it expects thousands of reimbursement requests from employers who have provided ...MORE

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Busting the Candy Man

3:27 pm, Jan. 8

Evidence against a doctor arrested last week for trafficking narcotic pain relievers includes a spreadsheet compiled by hospital physicians to document a relationship between the doctor's prescriptions and emergency room visits.The Santa Barbara, Calif. doctor allegedly supplied addicts with large ...MORE

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New year, new call to reduce worker deaths

The number of workers dying on the job is not falling and should be a call for action, the http://www.asse.org"target="_new">American Society of Safety Engineers said this week.The http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm"target="_new">Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in August 2011, that 4, ...MORE

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Is 12 to 18 minutes per claim file adequate?

A broker I spoke with last week told me he did the math on the average amount of time work comp claims adjusters spend with each indemnity claim file.Keep in mind the broker I spoke with is in California, where smart risk managers regularly pay their third party administrators or insurers ...MORE

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Pot head loses comp bid

A worker who smoked a marijuana joint before climbing a tree must have forgotten he was about ten feet off the ground, literally. He looked like he “stepped into thin air” before dropping to the ground, a witness in his workers compensation case testified.A urine sample taken at the ...MORE

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