Have you ever heard the term Preferred Worker as it relates to injured workers and L&I or self-insured workers’ compensation claims? The preferred worker program is a return to work incentive program offered by L&I that benefits both em…
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Have you ever heard of the Activity Prescription Form (APF), which is a required form in an L&I claim? Did you know that an inappropriately filled APF can significantly harm you workers’ compensation claim? In previous posts I discussed tim…
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Did you know that you are entitled to receive temporary total disability benefits while your workers’ compensation claim is open? Not sure what that means? And how that’s related to time-loss compensation? This is a very convoluted topic.…
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Today we’re going to talk about L&I penalizing self-insured employers such as King County Metro. There is more to the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) than administering workers’ compensation cases. It is a very big administra…
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Did you know that the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) has an acupuncture pilot project? Until very recently, acupuncture as a treatment was not covered on L&I claims. Recently L&I decided to launch a pilot program designed to col…
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Continuing with vocational services articles for L&I workers’ compensation claims, yesterday I posted general information and thoughts about the Plan Development phase in vocational services. Today, I’d like to focus on disputing voca…
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Yesterday I posted a simplistic summary of vocational benefits. This is my typical way of trying to simplify and explain the general process. However, when L&I provides vocational services in workers’ compensation L&I claims, things bec…
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I am very busy these days. While the past few weeks have handed me no shortage of professional challenges, and while I’ve certainly had my moments of frustration, I’m not complaining. A lot has changed since I came on board at Casey & Casey P…
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Injured workers are required to designate an attending provider or attending physician (AP) on their L&I claim or workers’ compensation claim. In very simple terms the AP is the medical provider that manages treatment, reports progress to L…
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I’ve been working on a hearing loss claim and thought it would be a good idea to share some basic information about occupational hearing loss L&I claims in Washington State. Hearing loss claims are governed by RCW 51.28.055. Unless hearing loss…
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