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Constant or Persistent "Non-Trauma?"

01/15/2016
Workers' Compensation Administrators' SAWCA Annual Convention in Williamsburg Virginia last summer.  He is with the Center for the Study of Social Insurance at the University of California Berkley. He says that workers' compensation was originally designed early in 20th century to

Category: Industry Insights

Gavin: A Way to Fix a Drug Problem Without More Drugs?

03/24/2017
effective non-opioid painkiller. There's the big-data molecular-lottery approach that promises to identify medications capable of delivering pain relief without opioid side effects. There's the ongoing debate regarding medical marijuana's potential to stem opioid use. This

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Budget Cuts Could Kill Drug Monitoring Program

11/29/2011
. "Deaths by overdose have also increased by 1000 in some states like Washington." The White House on April 19 released a paper highlighting strategies to stem abuse of prescription drugs. The paper cited a University of Michigan study from 2009 that concluded prescription medications are the second-most

Category: News

Claimants' Lawyers Say Law Revisions a Blow to Workers' Rights

07/25/2012
help insurance companies and its taking away the rights injured workers had. Whats happened is lawmakers and legislators have eroded the standards of the compromise to the benefit of the employer and carrier." A study published in January by the American Journal of Industrial Medicine also

Category: News

Pain Doctors Urge Funding Program to Fight Prescription Drug Abuse

10/29/2009
as misuse by employees at work and abuse by workers compensation patients who have become dependent on or addicted to the drugs. A report in September by the National Business Group on Health based in Washington D.C. said abuse of prescription pain killers now ranks second behind marijuana

Category: News

Attorneys: Want to Avoid Monster Claims? Get Serious About Safety

09/03/2020
' compensation case for 3.2 million. The employee had injured his back lifting a 300-pound laundry scale with the help of only one other worker. The settlement follows the firm's 3.8 million settlement in 2018 for a man who was severely injured driving a company truck despite the fact that marijuana was

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WessellsWayne

04/01/2014
. Nevertheless SPLI relies on the defense under Section 440.093 that Mr. Wessells injury was Wayne Wessells vs. SouthEast Personnel Leasing Inc. OJCC Case No. 13-010312WJC Final Compensation Order 10 of 15 primarily caused by drug intoxication or influence after having tested positive for marijuana. The

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FDA Panel Recommends Tighter Controls on Popular Painkiller

01/30/2013
drugs such as marijuana mescaline and heroin. There are many differences in the rules that apply to Schedule II and Schedule III drugs most notably a patient is limited to a three-month supply of Schedule II medication. According to the U.S. Department of Justices website a provider can write

Category: News

What Do you Know about Medical Providers?

02/11/2015
States Food and Drug Administration the "FDA." This was not a popular decision in some quarters see Zohydro or Pot a Study in Federalism and

Category: Industry Insights

Langham: Inflation and Legislative Budgeting

06/09/2017
session which ends today. The Orlando Sentinel reported that medical marijuana is a topic for discussion. But also in the

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