I got Chinese take-out on Saturday night. I know I had promised a review of online glasses retailers, but I just had to share this with you. Tune in tomorrow for the GlobalEyeglasses.com review and the day after for the Goggles4U.com review. My fortune cookie had three fortunes in it! 1 I typically consider this lucky. Saturday… not so much.
Saturday night was February 28th, as in the end of the month. I didn’t notice anyone drawn to me. 2
Soon is relative, so I guess this could still come true.
This one undoubtedly came true. In the wee hours of Sunday morning an unexpected visitor presented themselves. My typically delightful moo shu paid me a visit in the form of food poisoning.
Anyone interested in some Chinese take-out leftovers?
Original photo courtesy of TheTruthAbout. Photo editing – all me! [↩]
Get your prescription. When getting your eye prescription, being sure to have your physician provide your “Pupillary Distance.” 2 I’ve put together a chart at the bottom you can take with you to the doctor’s office.
Measure your glasses. Measure your current glasses using a metric ruler. The most important measurement is going to be “Temple Width.” The “Temple Width” is the overall front width of your glasses.
Choose frames. On the website of your choice, narrow down the available glasses by the “Temple Width.” From there you can narrow down the available choices.
Wait. Both of the websites I ordered glasses from took about two weeks to get the glasses to me.
Double check. Take your new glasses back to your eye doctor. They will have a machine that can check the prescriptions on the lenses.
Last week while Steve was at the Sacramento WCAB he heard about a recent case that held the COLA / SAWW adjustments and increases are calculated based upon the first January 1 following the date of injury. 12
This case involving SIF (the subsequent injuries fund) is from the San Jose WCAB. The name of the case is “XYZZXSJO2 v. Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund, ADJ 1510738, SJO 0251902”. The name of the Applicant was anonymized to protect their identity. 34
Thus far the conventional wisdom has been that the COLA/SAWW increases are calculated starting with the first January 1 after life pension gets paid out. This is a tremendous change in the COLA/SAWW calculation of life pension.
Assuming a 1/1/2003 injury at exactly 70% permanent partial disability, there would be 426.5 weeks of permanent disability paid after the permanent and stationary date before the life pension gets paid out. This equates to 8.2 years from the permanent and stationary date that has, thus far, not been taken into account with life pension calculations to date. To put this in perspective, if someone had an injury on 1/1/2003 and became P&S on that same date5 , the traditional method of calculating the life pension with COLA / SAWW increase would be too low by approximately 44%.
At the moment I’m finalizing a COLA / SAWW life pension calculator to determine what the future life pension rates are assuming a COLA / SAWW increase of 4.7% per year. If you’re interested in becoming a beta tester for this COLA / SAWW calculator for life pension increases, please drop me a line and ask for access.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a citation for the 4.7% COLA / SAWW increase, but I believe it to be the offiical average used by the DEU6 to calculate commutations of COLA / SAWW increases and adjustments. If you have an official citation or document from the DEU, please drop me a line so I can include that citation here!
I’m out of the office for one lousy day and what happens? A record number of visitors to PDRater.com, that’s what.1 I suppose I should spend more time up at the Santa Rosa WCAB, eh?
On Wednesday February 18, 2009 this website had a record number of individual visitors. On that day I 234 unique visitors. 2 In the grand scheme of things, this is a fairly low number of unique visitors to a website.
This sort of website traffic is considered to be very “high quality” as in the number of people from my target demographic comprise the vast majority of those people who actually visit my site.
I began maintaining a list of MPN providers about a year ago specifically because I find them so frustrating.1 (Explanation of the photo on the right2 ) Admittedly, a year ago I was an Applicant’s attorney, but that’s besides the point. Even as a workers’ compensation defense attorney and I’m still frustrated by MPN lists.
In order to find a treating physician with an MPN you need to have a conflagration of events. The right Medical Provider Network link to the right website for the right carrier with the right password.
According to the Division of Workers’ Compensation website, there are 1,334 official and approved Medical Provider Networks for California. Unfortunately, the Division of Workers’ Compensation list of MPN’s is almost completely worthless since it doesn’t include a website link or other useful information about these various Medical Provider Networks. The most useful part about the DWC’s list of MPN’s is that it will tell you whether or not a particular employer/self-insured/insurance company has an MPN. There is a lot of amount of duplication on the official MPN list. I would estimate there are really only about 500 or so unique Medical Provider Networks operating in California.
A “doc-in-the-box” is a derragotry phrase for a physician who is, for lack of a better term, in someone’s “pocket.” Doctor Who is a is a British sci-fi television show about someone called “The Doctor” who travels through time in a police box. The photo on the right with the caption is my attempt at humor. [↩]
