Nothing could be further from the truth.  As Amaxx Risk Solutions states, “The truth is — SOMEONE will be communicating with your employees about workers’ comp, so let that “someone” be YOU! Plaintiff’s lawyers repeatedly tell employers that the one reason employees seek their assistance is because they cannot get answers from their employers about their benefits.”
As a case manager, I hear this all the time.  The injured worker comes to me with questions and concerns.  Most of their questions are based on bad information given to them by their …

In perusing my daily Twitter feeds I ran across a new blog posting by my buddy Don Ryan. I found I had to share some of his thoughts.  I couldn’t have said it better.
“[The] US Social Security system, at its origin, there were ten workers paying for each retiree.  The retirement age was set at 65 (which was about the life expectancy at the time) so there was no getting paid social secrurity for twenty years.  I just did a life care plan on a young adult where the life …

Federal regulators gave nearly a quarter of the nation’s nursing homes the lowest possible rating.  A new ranking system was unveiled Thursday.  The new five start system is determined by factors including staffing and the results of state inspections and aims to simplify the complicated process of evaluating nursing homes by consumers.  Officials hope that the new system with challenge providers to improve patient service.
States with the highest percentage of nursing homes with a one-star ranking were: Louisiana, 39.6 percent; Georgia, 32.4 percent; Virginia, 32.4 percent; and Tennessee, 30.9 percent.
States …

Circumstantial evidence provided by the plaintiff’s spouse may be sufficient to prove a lack of informed consent claim in Pennsylvania.  The case is Fitzpatrick v. Natter.  Mrs. Fitzpatrick has MS and underwent placement of a Baclofen pump for spasticity management.  Her condition worsened causing her to be wheelchair bound, parapalegic and incontinent.  They contend that the risk disclosed was that it might be impossible to calibrate the Baclofen dosage to improve Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s abiilty to walk.
For more on the case, go to Law.com.