California law already anticipates that someone other than the evaluator will organize the records. It is specific about what that person may do, and about what the physician still has to do afterward.

It arrived as a budget trailer bill, so it moved through the budget process rather than the ordinary policy committee route, and it makes the largest change to the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund in decades. It adds Labor Code sections 4750, 4754.1, 4754.2, 4754.3, 4757, and 4758, amends sections 4751, 4753, 4753.5, 4754, and 4755, and makes the 60-day reconsideration rule in section 5909 permanent.

A fast chronology and an accurate one are always different. For TPAs, the difference shows up on the reserve line long before it ever shows up on an invoice.

WC examiners rate the paperwork, not the injury. The applicant attorney’s medical record review checklist for QME and IME exams, and why it moves awards.

Most medical record reviews are built for the plaintiff’s demand letter, which means it glides right past the facts that a defense file is won. Here are the seven gaps that inflate reserves, and how to catch them before the demand lands.

Find the prior injury, the pre-existing condition, and the intervening event before the IME, so your examiner can apportion what the file actually proves.