Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features the California Worker’s Compensation Institutes announcement of the next installment of their Case Law Series, which will happen in May. The seminar aims to examine how recent trends in decisional law are reshaping California workers’ compensation, and discuss appropriate negotiation and defense strategies for numerous types of stakeholders with negotiating authority. Find out more by clicking here!
Also in the news today is a new study coming from Express Scripts, on choices made between long-acting and short-acting narcotics in the course of treating injured workers. After examining prescription data for 402,000 injured workers, Express Scripts found that choosing clinically equivalent, lower-cost narcotic medications could cut more than $23 million a year in pharmacy-related costs for workers’ compensation claims. Find out more by clicking here!