Last night I updated this website to use WordPress v2.8. There’s a lot of new features under the hood. One that I really like is the ability to browse new website themes.
The calculators should all be completely impervious to changes in WordPress. However, its theoretically possible you might notice a little bit of weirdness in how the rest of the website looks/acts. If so, please drop me a line and let me know so I can look into it.
Enjoy!
The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board recently solicited amicus briefs regarding the Weiner v. Ralphs case. After review of the amicus briefs on the topic of the repeal of Labor Code Section 139.5 and vocational rehabilitation, the WCAB has just issued their en banc opinion.1
Download a copy of Weiner v. Ralphs (en banc) right here:
Obviously, you’ll need to read and interpret Weiner v. Ralph’s for yourself. Here’s the Board’s own summary:
What does Weiner v. Ralph’s mean to you?
I’ve updated the Medical Provider Network lists as of 6/5/2009. Most of the updates to the MPN lists page are contributed by loyal users of this website. What’s interesting about the latest update is that it was actually contributed by an insurance company themselves!1
One thing I’ll never understand is why so many MPN lists have logins and passwords. The whole point of a website is to make that kind of information available. Its not like these lists of MPN doctors and providers are secret, right? If anything, making these website more user friendly and more navigable will enable people (injured workers, applicant attorneys, defense attorneys, and judges) to actually find physicians and help smooth the operation of the system.
In any case, I think this is a great first step. I would love to offer everyone a unified source for all California Medical Provider Network websites, logins, and passwords. It would be even better to have the insurance companies and third party administrators just send me the updated information for their links as they update their sites.
It turns out that this website is actually in the top 5% of all blogs in the WORLD. Where did I get this incredible statistic? The Internets, of course.1
While there are some 133,000,000 blogs in the world, all but 7,400,000 of them have been abandoned. 2 Since I add a blog post on average at least once a week, I’m quite safely in the top 7.4 million blogs. That doesn’t even count the number of updates to the permanent impairment and permanent disability calculators.
Top 5%! I wish I had prepared a speech.
Unfortunately, one of the coolest features of my calculators is that some of them will give you the answer you’re looking for before you’ve even finished typing the search term. This works with the:
While these are all very cool while you’re sitting at your computer, I found out (much to my dismay) that this system didn’t work at all when using these online calculators from my cell phone! 1 Well, I’ve updated the calculators to make them more compatible with more phones.2
Save yourself from your own workers’ compensation claim and just leave that heavy rating manual at home.
Workers’ Comp Executive will be providing a live steaming broadcast of the Workers’ Compensation rate hearings taking place in Sacramento on June 8th, 2009.
Now, don’t mind that funny looking guy yammering on about CompLine. 12 He’ll be replaced with a live streaming broadcast of the rate hearings come Monday afternoon at 12:45pm.3
Will the rates go up? Will they go down? Who knows!
Yesterday afternoon in Fresno I showed another attorney how I could perform an Ogilvie calculation on my cell phone using the best workers’ compensation calculator website in the world.
I don’t know.2
I have to be at the Fresno WCAB this afternoon. 1 Stop by and say hello if you’re in the area.
Last week while in Stockton I heard on NPR that a local station was switching to an “all ’90’s” format. I hoped against hope that it was not KWOD 106.5.
However, on the drive home yesterday I was flipping around the dial and caught FM 106.5 from Sacramento. I grew up in Sacramento and have fond memories of this particular station.
Anyhow, KWOD 106.5 just became “The BUZZ.” I listened to it for about five minutes this evening and shut it off. BuzzKILL is more like it. 6 7
I’ve got a hearing at the Stockton WCAB this morning. 1 Stop by and say hello if you’re in the area.
