Yesterday, officials from the N.C. Rate Bureau, NC Industrial Commission and the NC Press Association met and agreed to strike a law which made employers insurance policies private. While this is just an agreement and not actively in play right now, the Raleigh News and Observer reports that leaders do…
Why are we even talking about a “Chained CPI”? Where did it come from? Chained CPI is a phrase that has been popping up lately due to the “Fiscal Cliff” of 2013. The Fiscal Cliff is coming due to a set of laws that will go in effect starting midnight…
On Monday, the government announced that traffic related accidents which resulted in death continued on its historic decline and fell to its lowest level since 1949 according to a USA Today report. In 2011, a total of 32,367 people died as a result of a traffic related accident. This stat includes pedestrians…
Social media is a great. It allows you to easily keep in touch with your friends and even make new friends. Hey, it even allows for us to have awesome Halloween Costume Contest with our clients. But at what point does what we share go over the line and start…
Dr. April Pettit is an infectious disease specialist in Nashville, Tennessee at Vanderbilt University. When a patient of hers wasn’t responding standard treatments, she was concerned. After these standard treatments didn’t work, she spoke with the family of the patient. Through these discussions she found out that the patient had…
Following up on the meningitis story we brought you recently on our blog: WRAL released a report yesterday on 80 clinics in North Carolina that purchase compounded drugs from the same facility which the meningitis outbreak was linked. Please view the report below:
The following in a press release from the Social Security Administration on the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2013. In a nutshell, If you receive Social Security disability benefits, your monthly payment will increase in January of 2013 by 1.7 percent. If you would like more information on the Cost of…
Drug compounding is under the spotlight after a deadly breakout of fungal meningitis has caused 12 deaths and 112 cases across 7 states, including North Carolina. All of the cases involve a steroid injection given to patients with back pain. As ABC News reports, the specific strain causing the outbreak…
Yesterday, on our Facebook page, we posted an article from the Charlotte Observer about the expansion of the North Carolina Move Over Law which went into effect on October 1st. As a recap, the North Carolina “Move Over” Law was expanded to include utility and maintenance crews including tow trucks…
A newspaper’s in-depth examination of businesses that cheat workers by skimping on insurance coverage might spur important reforms, says workers’ compensation lawyer Ben Cochran of Hardison & Cochran. The Raleigh News &Observer recently published an investigative series called “The Ghost Workers”about businesses that cheat by misclassifying workers and buying a…
