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Horror Stories On Opt-Out and Workers’ Comp Laws Worse than Nevada’s Laws

By Jason Weinstock on November 12, 2015 Posted in Information Center,Legislative proposals

Every year I attend a Larson Advisory Board luncheon scheduled during the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference in Las Vegas. Advisory Board members are attorneys from various states who blog and contribute articles on workers’ compensation law to the Larson’s Series of publications. The Board members discuss trends and the hottest legal issues. This … Continue reading Horror Stories On Opt-Out and Workers’ Comp Laws Worse than Nevada’s Laws →

Legislative Update on Bills Affecting Injured Workers

By Jason Weinstock on March 31, 2015 Posted in Legislative proposals,Permanent partial disability awards

Steve 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 →

Choose Your Doctor Legislation: Need Testimony and Letters

By Jason Weinstock on March 9, 2015 Posted in Legislative proposals,Medical Care

Nevada 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 →

Legislation: Find Your Nevada representatives

By Jason Weinstock on March 6, 2015 Posted in Legislative proposals

Click 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 proposals

The 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 →