Following the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, all branches of government and administrative bodies have grappled with how to address the health and economic threats posed by the virus, while staying within the bounds of their rule-making authority and powers.  A recent example is the attempt by the Illinois Workers Compensation Commission (IWCC) to
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  Yesterday morning the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC) voted unanimously to repeal the April 16th emergency rule, which declared a First Responder’s or Front-Line Worker’s exposure to COVID-19 the virus would be rebuttably presumed to have arisen out of and in the course of employment, and that the resulting injury and lost time would
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  While development letters (CMS letters asking for additional information for a submitted MSA) have slowed over the last several months, we are still seeing them, nonetheless.  We also are hearing from clients that they have old cases which seem “stuck” because CMS is asking for additional medical records that do not exist, or which
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  Attorney William Lowry recently wrote about workers’ compensation insurance considerations when Illinois employees are working abroad.  The blog post may be found here.  This blog will look at situations involving tangential issues, i.e. workers’ compensation settlements with future medical allocations or Medicare Set-Asides (MSAs) that will be spent overseas. Although most workers’ compensation settlement
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  For those of us who have been doing Medicare Set-Asides for over a decade, CMS’ pricing of prescription drugs has been a difficult pill to swallow.  Initially, we as an industry priced prescription drugs in a variety of ways: based on actual cost; using mail-order pharmacy prices; or sometimes even using prices from other
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