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WORKERS’ COMPENSATION IN THE NEWS, EPISODE #2, A RESTAURANT COOKING UP STRESS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Posted on July 19, 2021

A Restaurant closed for a “day of kindness” after enduring customers’ abuse. Nypost.com  Restaurant Employee stress is real.  Some of the story’s restaurant’s employees were reduced to tears from customers swearing, threatening, arguing, and yelling. The story illustrated multiple stressors that restaurant employees experience.  Customer abuse was the highlight.  There were management problems as well. The Employer noted that they “.. have had to make adjustments due to the increase in business volume, size of kitchen, product availability and staffing availability.” Can Work...

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WORKERS’ COMPENSATION IN THE NEWS, EPISODE #1: BURGER MADNESS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Posted on July 13, 2021

Many news articles involve work injuries.  A recent viral story about Burger King Employees quitting their jobs en masse is one of them. Fox News reported that  “[e]mployees there said they’ve been working in a kitchen with no air conditioning for weeks, with the temperature reaching more than 90 degrees at one point, according to KLKN Channel 8.  One employee, former general manager Rachael Flores, was reportedly hospitalized for dehydration, according to KLKN Channel 8. “ This article will discuss how these facts involve a work-related injury and what legal issue, within workers'...

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What You Need To Know About The Employee’s Disability Questionnaire & Workers’ Compensation

Posted on July 12, 2021

Injured Workers, in their Workers’ Compensation Claim, may be evaluated by a Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) or an Agreed Medical Evaluator (AME.) With respect to these Evaluations, Injured Workers are required to fill out a variety of forms.     The DWC-AD Form 100 is one of those forms. It is the “Employee’s Disability Questionnaire.” This article will discuss the “Employee’s Disability Questionnaire,” the questions that are asked, and how an Injured Workers’ case can be impacted  the form. Why is the DWC-AD 100 A Disability Evaluation Unit (DEU) Form?    QME reports...

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Featured image for post: CALIFORNIA BACK INJURIES AND TREATMENT GUIDELINES: EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE (EBM) AND WORKERS’ COMPENSATION:  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

CALIFORNIA BACK INJURIES AND TREATMENT GUIDELINES: EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE (EBM) AND WORKERS’ COMPENSATION:  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Posted on July 9, 2021

California Workers’ Compensation has embraced Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) to dictate industrial medical care authorization. Thus, when a EBM study is published, the Workers’ Compensation Community looks to its conclusions. The community looks to see the results are aligned with the Labor Code’s mandate to provide treatment to cure or relieve from the effects of an industrial injury. Back Injury treatment was assessed in a recent EBM study.  They looked to see if  guidelines treatment achieved favorable results.  The results of such a study can shape both insurance company and medical...

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