Jon L Gelman’s Guides

The New England Journal of Medicinereports that hospitals remain unsafe. A study comparing the last 10 years reflects that there have been no significant changes in safety rates for patients entering hospitals. For decades the number has been stable, close to 25% of hospital pati...

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The trend nationally is to prohibit the use of cell phones in motorvehicles. Such a ban would make use of a cellphone while working a deviation from employment and accidents involving cell phone use at work would then be considered a deviation from employment and excluded fromwor...

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A Federal Court Judge has permitted discovery to go forward in a potential class action challenging the reimbursement procedures of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) being utilized under the authority of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP). The case pend...

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Football, the sport of humans clashing heads together, is now subject to a growing wave of workers' compensation claims for dementia. Recent studies have shown thatfootball players have suffered head injuriesas a result of multiple concussions sufferchronic traumatic encephalitis...

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oint replacement claims are becoming more frequent in workers compensation and proving compensability remains challenging. As the aging working population has expanded so has been the need for workers compensation to pay for the cost of replacing aging joints. Thecost for a new...

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