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The team at WorkCompCentral is stunned and deeply saddened by David DePaolo's sudden departure from this world. He passed away Sunday, July 17 in a motorcycle accident. However, we are all committed to carry on and continue to fulfill David's vision of providing workers compensation professionals with the most unbiased news, education and resources in the industry. We will also strive to make this year's Comp Laude® Awards & Gala event the best ever. The Comp Laude® event encapsulates his vision and passion for the industry. David was very proud of the team that he had assembled and we are working very hard to support each other and our valued customers.
Some of David's favorite charities:
Kids Chance of California or Angel Flight West.
David J. DePaolo
10/02/59 - 7/17/16
Top Story: Friday, May 7, 2021
Mental health claims increased 2.4% last year, and the rise was driven almost exclusively by an unusually sharp uptick in health care workers filing claims for anxiety and depression-related conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released by claims management company Sedgwick.
Health care workers in 2020 filed nearly 43% more… Read more »
Halving the length of time available for employers to accept claims and increasing employers’ liability for medical benefits while assessing liability could have unintended consequences, the California Workers’ Compensation Institute said Thursday.
Senate Bill 335, by Sen. Dan Cortese, D-San Jose, would require employers to accept or deny most claims within 45 days instead of the 90 days that they have now. Employers would have 30 days to accept claims from first… Read more »The Iowa Court of Appeals ruled that an airline employee was not entitled to… Read more »
A Louisiana appellate court ruled that a welder was entitled to benefits for an injury that he belatedly… Read more »
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The Delaware Superior Court ruled that an injured worker provided enough evidence of willful or wanton misconduct by his employer’s insurance carrier to pursue punitive damages on his bad-faith claim.
Case: Moyer v. American Zurich Insurance Co., No. K19C-09-026 JJC, 04/28/2021, published.
Facts: Michael Moyer worked for CBRE. He suffered an electric shock while… Read more »
The owner of a construction company in Fresno self-surrendered Thursday after a warrant was issued for her arrest on six felony counts of fraud, the California Department of Insurance announced.
Carolyn Plaza, 41, is accused of failing to report more than $3 million in payroll at a contracting business she co-owned, Absolute Urethane Inc. The Department of Insurance… Read more »The owner of a large Bay Area construction firm admitted to committing felony workers’ compensation insurance fraud after years of firing employees when they requested medical treatment for work-related injuries, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Between 2016 and 2019, Man Tat Szeto, 71, of San Ramon,… Read more »
States with percent-of-charge-based fee regulations or no fee schedules for hospital outpatient care had exponentially higher costs nationwide, according to a report released Thursday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.
Cambridge, Mass.-based researchers compared hospital payments for a group of common outpatient surgeries in… Read more »
A generic pregabalin extended-release tablet that hit the market in April will likely lower costs on claims that include Lyrica CR as part of the medication regimen, according to Optum Workers’ Comp and Auto No-Fault.
Although Lyrica CR is not commonly seen in workers’ compensation Medicare Set-Asides, Optum said it expects that the newly released generic will be about… Read more »
Thursday was National Nurses Day. In celebration, I wanted to bring up a subject that I have seen overlooked in quite a few workers' comp files: field case managers.
I like to call them rehab nurses. A field case manager does not have to be an RN or LPN, but most seem to have a nursing background.
I have written a few articles on field case managers… Read more »
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