Insurance companies sometimes tell doctors that they will not pay for procedures that the doctor says are medically appropriate. Today's post comes from guest author Nathan Reckman from Paul McAndrew Law Firm.In Iowa, employers have the right to control an injured worker’s medical care. This means that if you are injured at work, your employer [...]
Today’s post comes from guest author Tom Domer from The Domer Law Firm.Access to health insurance is under attack. President’s Obama’s comprehensive health care reform law, intended to increase health care coverage for millions of Americans, faced extreme scrutiny by the U.S. Supreme Court last week. Congressman Paul Ryan’s federal budget plan is a cynical [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Deborah Kohl from Deborah G. Kohl Law Offices.A recent article published in the Boston Globe cites injuries to teenagers are, “A major problem,” according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The article can be found here. The article further goes on to state that rules are often “flouted” for [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Kit Case from Causey Law Firm.For the last few weeks we’ve been talking about the very real medical dangers of worry. For injured or disabled workers', worry can add an additional and very significant burden on the body. In this post, we’ll talk about some of the ways that [...]
In 2012, suicides in the U.S. military were at a record high of 349, which was higher than the 295 American combat deaths in Afghanistan in 2012. This number is up from 301 in 2011. The Pentagon has had a difficult time dealing with this epidemic, which likely stems from military personnel being in combat [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Jon Gelman from Jon Gelman, LLC - Attorney at Law.A settlement was recently reached in a pending Federal Court case tht will benefit Medicare beneficiaries who require skilled services. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will no longer require that a patient "improve" inorder to be entled [...]
Over the past decade, North Carolina has witnessed an ongoing decrease in the number of workplace fatalities. This past year (2012) there was a total of thirty-five reported workplace fatalities. In 2004, for example, there were 90 workplace fatalities. According to the Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Division has been working with [...]
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a type of anxiety disorder that can occur after a person has seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. In civil war battles a soldier may be sitting next to his best friend when a cannonball takes off his friend’s head. The horror [...]
Medicare should not pay medical bills that are the primary responsibility of a third party. When they do, they want to be reimbursed, and all parties understand that concept, but the problem is the lengthy delays and lack of due process. The SMART Act, which was signed into law by President Obama on January 10, [...]
Today’s post comes from guest author Roger Moore from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.Surprisingly, many employers and insurance companies actually believe workers’ hurt themselves on purpose or at the very least put themselves in positions where they think an injury is likely. We hear this a lot as a basis for not settling claims for existing [...]