Artificial intelligence [AI] opens new frontiers for workers’ compensation law firms and insurance companies. Last week, Google announced new applications that will vastly expand how workers’ compensation claims can be serviced, managed, and supported.
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Available Workers' Compensation Law 2023 Update
Jon Gelman’s* newly revised and updated treatise on Workers’ Compensation Law is now available from Thomson Reuters®. The treatise is the most complete and research-integrated work on NJ Workers’ Compensation law.
Monday, February 7, 2022
Order: Workers' Compensation Law 2022 Update
Jon Gelman’s* newly revised and updated treatise on Workers’ Compensation Law can now be ordered from Thomson Reuters®. The treatise is the most complete and research integrated work available on NJ Workers’ Compensation law.
Friday, February 12, 2021
Just Published - Workers' Compensation Law 2021 COVID-19 Update
Jon Gelman’s* newly revised and the updated treatise on Workers’ Compensation Law has been published by Thomson Reuters®. The treatise is the most complete and research integrated work available on NJ Workers’ Compensation law. Updated annually for over 35 years, this body of work provides practical tips, objective analysis, and academic support for the workers' compensation community.
Friday, January 22, 2021
Is the workers' compensation system ready for the COVID-19 [coronavirus] virus? Live Updates
Saturday, May 30, 2020
OSHA's vague COVID-19 reporting guidance
Friday, April 10, 2020
HHS Relaxes HIPAA Rules During COVID Pandemic
Friday, June 21, 2019
AI and Workers' Compensation: Who is Watching the Machine?
Thursday, May 9, 2019
New Opioid Prescription Regulations
Monday, December 31, 2018
Nebraska Doctor Exposed to New Ebola Outbreak
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Amnesty International USA Files a FOIA Request on Burn Pits
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Safeguarding Injured Workers From Cybersecurity Breaches
Thursday, June 9, 2016
NJ Supreme Court Allows COLA Pension Freeze
FL Supreme Court Rules Yet Another Part of the Work Comp Law Unconstitutional
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Privacy: Court Mandates Protective Order for Workers' Compensation Discovery
Confidentiality is a two sided sword. Historically asbestos litigation had its genesis in workers' compensation claims. In this instance the Corporate Defendant sought the utilization of privacy restrictions as a defense.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Expectations Must Adapt to Change
Times have changed. In the past the corporate and executive workplace was a formal "tie and jacket" environment. Seasoned member always gripe how things have changed for the worse and long for a return to the comforting and familiar "good old times."
Monday, February 8, 2016
Defense Firm Prohibited From Seeking Unfettered Medical Discovery
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Senator Patrick Leahy Calls For Greater Transparency by Asbestos Companies
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
CMS to Speed-Up MSP Collection Practices
Thursday, May 28, 2015
In the name of privacy...
The real issue is that while workers' compensation records are supposedly confidential in State systems, the Federal government has consistently neglected to insure that privacy whether be: medical records under HIPPA; by integration of state's motor vehicle or workers' compensation records utilizing Social Security Numbers, or by Medicare Secondary Payer Act electronic data systems.
Additionally, the Federal government will probably be mandating the reporting workers' compensation payment information, in Federal Income Returns shortly. The batting record of the IRS this week on privacy has been dismal.
Time will only tell whether workers' compensation data can actually be shielded from intruders.
CMS announced today:
"As part of the Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers (SMART) Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be implementing optional MFA services on the MSPRP. MFA is the use of two or more different authentication factors to verify the identity of an end user. Verified users will have access to view unmasked claim data on the Portal.
"Non debtors will still need to have a Verified Proof of Representation or Consent to Release authorization to perform actions on cases. Please note that MFA and the associated identity proofing process will be optional to portal users. Portal users may continue to use the portal without going through the MFA process but will not have the benefit of viewing un-masked data.
"MFA is scheduled to be available beginning on July 13, 2015. Updated user guides and training materials will be available on CMS.gov and within the portal upon implementation.
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- On-Demand Labor - Is Workers' Compensation Ready for Flex-Time Employment? (workers-compensation.blogspot.com)
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