Monthly Archives: March 2015
Legislative Update on Bills Affecting Injured Workers
By Jason Weinstock on March 31, 2015 Posted in Legislative proposals,Permanent partial disability awardsSteve Miller ran two articles today in the Nevada Journal on the proposed legislation that would allow injured workers greater rights to choose their treating physicians. Let’s hope that Nevada’s lawmakers read them and pay particular attention to how ineffective DIR is with regard to looking out for the interests of injured workers as we … Continue reading Legislative Update on Bills Affecting Injured Workers
2015 Cost of Nevada PPD Exam
By Jason Weinstock on March 18, 2015 Posted in Permanent partial disability awardsEffective 2/1/15 through 1/31/16, the cost of a permanent partial disability evaluation on a Nevada workers’ compensation claim is $754.62. That is for two body parts. The cervical spine is considered one body part, the thoracic spine another body part, and the lumbar spine would be a separate body part. For each additional body part … Continue reading 2015 Cost of Nevada PPD Exam
Choose Your Doctor Legislation: Need Testimony and Letters
By Jason Weinstock on March 9, 2015 Posted in Legislative proposals,Medical CareNevada injured workers can do something about the current law that limits their choice of treating doctors to those on their industrial insurers’ provider lists. The Nevada Chiropractic Association has sponsored a bill, AB 187, that would amend current law and would allow injured workers to treat with a doctor who is willing to accept … Continue reading Choose Your Doctor Legislation: Need Testimony and Letters
Peripheral Nerve Physician in Las Vegas: Tim Tollestrup
By Jason Weinstock on March 9, 2015 Posted in Medical CareThere was a lengthy article in the Las Vegas Review Journal today about the only peripheral nerve surgeon in Las Vegas, Nevada- Tim Tollestrup, M.D. I wrote about meeting him previously in a post in October 2012. Since then, I’ve had half a dozen workers compensation claimants treat with him, with excellent results. Additionally, he … Continue reading Peripheral Nerve Physician in Las Vegas: Tim Tollestrup
Legislation: Find Your Nevada representatives
By Jason Weinstock on March 6, 2015 Posted in Legislative proposalsClick on this website to find out who your representatives are in state government so that you can voice your opinion on this important issue: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/Research/Library/FAQ/WhichLegislatorRepresents.html?CFID=23920731&CFTOKEN=bf710a33b7c9b575-B1993405-F17A-47AD-CBA1A41D2BF543E2
Help! Prevent Terrible Changes to Work Comp
By Jason Weinstock on March 5, 2015 Posted in Legislative proposalsThe Nevada legislature meets only once every other year, and this year doesn’t look good for the changes that could gut benefits for Nevada’s injured workers. The amendment so many of us committed work comp attorneys hoped would get out of the senate committee on commerce and labor and to the legislature for a … Continue reading Help! Prevent Terrible Changes to Work Comp
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