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Benefit Penalties: Updated Info from DIR
By Jason Weinstock on January 24, 2014

 I received a letter from Charles Verre, Chief Administrative Officer of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Division of Industrial Relations responding to my request for more information about the number of benefit penalties against insurers and third-party administrators by DIR.  (DIR investigates complaints by injured workers that insurers and/or their third-party administrators are violating … Continue reading Benefit Penalties: Updated Info from DIR

DIR Statistics Disappointing for Injured Workers
By Jason Weinstock on July 20, 2013

 Last year when I contacted the Research and Analysis Supervisor of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Industrial Insurance Regulation Section of the DIR, I was told that only 31 benefit penalties were issued in 2011.  I just received statistical information for Fiscal Year 2013 (July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2013), and over this … Continue reading DIR Statistics Disappointing for Injured Workers

DIR Complaints Are Insufficient Remedy
By Jason Weinstock on July 11, 2012

 In 1995, the Nevada legislature passed a law, NRS 616D.030,  that injured workers could no longer sue workers’ compensation insurers or the third-party administrators who handle comp claims .Injured workers had been filing  lawsuits for money damages against  insurer’s or TPA’s for their  "bad faith" or negligence in denying or delaying medical care and compensation … Continue reading DIR Complaints Are Insufficient Remedy