Legal Issues
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Cost of Air Ambulances Skyrocket
Workers’ comp insurers are locked in a battle with the air ambulance...
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Claimant’s Causation Evidence Held Insufficient Where Accident Description was Wrong
The appeals panel has reversed the decision and order of a benefit...
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Compounding Doctor and Pharmacist Indicted
Four people, including a Houston area pharmacist and a physician have been...
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Exclusive Remedy Defense Bars $40 Million Judgment in CCIP Case
The 14th Court of Appeals has reversed a $40 million injury award...
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NCOIL Creates Air Ambulance Task Force
Several years ago, the air ambulance industry began claiming that its bills...
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AP Rules Carrier Had No Obligation to Send SIBs Application to Claimant
The appeals panel has reversed the decision and order of a benefit...
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Precedents: Motels, Diners and Dives
Left-handed Martin Perez pitches for the Texas Rangers major league baseball club....
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Supreme Court to hear SORM v. Martinez
This fall, the Texas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a...
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TDI-DWC Discount Rate/Interest Rate 7-01-17 to 9-30-17
Please click here for the TDI-DWC Discount Rate/Interest Rate for July 1, 2017 to...
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Pennsylvania Declares Use of AMA Guides Unconstitutional
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, last week, declared the state’s statutorily mandated use...
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Compound Prescriptions Falling in Texas
A report released in May by the Texas Department of Insurance –...
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DWC Proposes Amended Compounding Rule
The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is accepting comments on an informal...
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