05/15/2008
MONTEREY Calif. -- A 1 million study on "underpayments and overpayments" -- which is perhaps as close as any study will ever get to assessing the amount of fraud in California's workers' compensation system -- will be released on June 17 state Fraud Assessment Commission Chairman Bill Zachry
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reports an estimated 14.8 million Americans are current illicit drug users and that 77 of those drug users - or 9.4 million individuals - are employed.
A study by the agency showed full-time employees who admitted to being current illicit drug users tended to be between the ages of 18 and 25 less
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liable for applicant's workers' compensation claims contending 1 that the injuries incurred during applicant's
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Stephanie Brown Claimant seeks reversal of an order of the Judge of Compensation Claims JCC denying her motion to appoint an expert medical
advisor EMA and denying her request for a methacholine bronchoprovocation study. Because the opinions of the medical experts were in conflict the JCC was
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Petition for Reconsideration of the Award
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issued October 6 2010 in order to study the facts and applicable law. The Board has completed
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TO FILE SUPPLEMENTAL PETITION AND GRANTING APPLICANT'S PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION
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reconsideration in order to provide us with an adequate opportunity to fully study the factual and legal issues raised including those that might be set forth in
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Report and Recommendation on Petition for Reconsideration meport recommending that the petition be denied. For the reasons discussed below we will grant reconsideration rescind the June 13 2007
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include the many incentives inherent in the system. For example are injured workers incentivized to remain out of work and do medical providers have incentives to produce good outcomes
Langham would also like to see a study of the appropriateness or desirability of compensation for lost earning or
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worker said Dr. Xuguang Grant Tao one of the authors of the study published in the August edition of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine or JOEM.
Yet too many employers are hesitant to allow injured employees to return to work while receiving chronic opioid therapy he said
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and her request for the study.
Analysis
The appellate court concluded that the judge erred in failing to grant Brown's request for an EMA once the deposition testimony established a conflict pursuant to section 440.139c of the Florida Statutes.
The statute "requires the appointment of an EMA
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