Number Value Non-Employee Fraud Cases 9 $ 74,876,000.00 Employee Fraud Cases 1 $ 450,000.00 Total $ 75,326,000.00 Five of the top ten fraud cases in 2014 are from California. The other five cases are from Florida, Texas, Arizona, Washington and Georgia. As usual, non-employee fraud cases dominated the list and the dollar amounts are staggering, [...]
Today’s post comes from guest author Charlie Domer from The Domer Law Firm.In many workers’’ compensation cases, Medicare pays medical treatment expenses for an injured worker that may otherwise be the responsibility of the workers’’ compensation insurance carrier. In the past decade, workers’’ compensation practitioners have become well-versed in dealing with Medicare issues and establishing [...]
Many workers' no longer have paid sick days. Today's post comes from guest author Rod Rehm from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.Health Care Is Just The Beginning At a time when a flu epidemic is exploding out of control, killing thousands of people, forty-two million Americans have no sick leave. Many of these people are lower [...]
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 [...]
Today’s post comes from guest author Kit Case from Causey Law Firm.Worry is increasingly pervasive in our society as insecurity about the economy and safety, nationally and personally, grows daily. Worry is compounded in the daily lives of those who are injured or disabled, as they struggle with the added burdens of medical costs and [...]