Maryland Pols Mull Allowing Social Workers to Determine WC Mental Impairments

• Maryland’s State Legislature is considering a bill that would authorize a licensed certified social worker-clinical to provide evaluation services for workers’ compensation claims related to permanent impairments involving a behavioral or mental disorder.
• The bill, introduced on Feb. 6, would also require such social workers to comply with requirements to perform the evaluation services, according to the summary.
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Goldberg Segalla Adds Daniel G. Nevarez to WC SF Practice

• Goldberg Segalla said last week that Daniel G. Nevarez has joing the firm’s Workers’ Compensation practice group in San Francisco.
• He is a Certified Authority on Workers’ Compensation who focuses his practice on counseling and defending employers, insurers, and third-party administrators before the California Workers’ Compensation Board and other venues.
• In addition to handling workers’ compensation defense for one of the leading international property casualty insurers for more than five years, Dan also has extensive experience as an executive claims and risk management consultant.
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PIE Insurance Founder Dax Craig to ‘Step Away’

• PIE Insurance founder and President Dax Craig said last week that he will ‘step away’ from his role in the near future, according to industry reports.
• He co-founded the firm in 2017, with an eye on issuing all of the firm’s workers’ compensation policies on its own writing companies by the end of 2023.