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Published July 17, 2018
SRTK Helps Raise $500,000 for LA Regional Food Bank
SRTK placed Bronze in the LA Regional Food Bank’s Annual Food From the Bar Food Drive, which raised $500,000 to benefit children in Los Angeles this summer.
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Published June 20, 2018
Ted Richards Writes WorkCompCentral Article on Construction Falls
Shareholder Ted Richards has published an article in WorkCompCentral’s Work Comp World blog discussing fall hazards in the construction industry, and how employers and employees alike can avoid them.
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Published June 18, 2018
Preventing Employee Abuse of Temporary Disability Provisions
The provision of temporary disability (TD) is intended to be mutually beneficial to the employer and to the employee. The employee is entitled to funds during the period of medical rehabilitation following an industrial injury, and the employer can reasonably expect this individual — in whom a substantial amount of training and experience were invested … Continued
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Thought of the Day
Choose your doctors very carefully, particularly AMEs, and be aggressive in cross-examination! Also, be proactive! For injuries where you expect the physician to say this, be ready in your instructive letter and at the cross-examination to counter his inability to separate the two (or more) injuries out.
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Published July 18, 2018
Two More Providers Indicted in Pacific Hospital Kickback Scheme
Dr. Jacob Tauber of Beverly Hills and Dr. Serge Obukhoff of Malibu have been indicted by a federal grand jury for participating in a kickback scheme involving referrals to Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, bringing the total cost of the scheme to almost $1 billion.
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Published July 12, 2018
DWC Establishes Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has announced the formation of the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, which will consult with and advise the DWC on updates to the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule Drug Formulary.
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Published July 10, 2018
California Department of Insurance Orders Workers’ Comp Insurers to Report Tax Savings
The California Department of Insurance has ordered that every insurer licensed to write workers’ compensation insurance in the state is required to report their yearly tax savings due to the tax Jobs and Cuts Act of 2017, beginning in 2018.
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