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News and Commentary to Help Create A Better Workers’ Compensation System

On March 11, 2010, the Making Workers’ Comp Work Conference will honor each of the following individuals and organizations with the first annual Integrity in Workers’ Comp Awards. We invite you to meet them!

INTEGRITY AWARD RECIPIENTS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: DR. JOSEPH BERNSTEIN

MEDICINE
AIS
Bob Barth, PhD
Douglas Benner, MD
Nortin Hadler, MD
Mark Hyman, MD
Walt Newman, MD
Panel of Consultants

RECOVERY AND ADDICTION
The Hanley Center
Las Vegas Recovery Center

LAW
California Workers’ Compensation Defense Attorneys Association Education Division
State Fund Legal Department
Zachary Sacks, Esq.

EMPLOYERS
ABM Industries
Apple
Cisco
Costco
Disney
E.J. Gallo
Federal Express
Gap, Inc.
Google
Grimway Farms
Joie de Vivre Hotels
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County Metro Transit Authority
Marriott
Monterey Mushrooms
Pacific Gas & Electric
Patagonia
Recology
Safeway
San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Unified School District
Santa Ana Unified School District
Stanford University Medical Center
Sutter Health
U.S. Marine Corps
USS-POSCO Industries
University of California
UPS
Ventura County
Virgin America
Whole Foods

CLAIMS AND INSURANCE
Alaska National
Applied Underwriters
CCMSI
Contract Claim Services
ESIS
Intercare
Willis HRH
Zenith

JUDGES
Judge Susan Hamilton

TOOLS
Salesforce.com
Work Comp Central

WORK COMP REFORM
Allen Colledge, MD (Utah)
Jerry Fogel (Florida)

COMMUNITY
AWCP (Association of Work Comp Professionals)
Diann Cohen
PIWC (Professionals in Workers’ Compensation)

AMA RATING
John Alchemy, MD
AND THE 83 DOCTORS WHOM WE HAVE FOUND IN CALIFORNIA WHO DO AMA RATINGS CORRECTLY

After a review of 1,600 AMA reports done in California, we have found these 83 doctors who consistently do the ratings correctly (the full list with specialty and contact information can be found at www.askphilwalker.com):

Alchemy, John
Anderson, Scott T
Armstrong, Randall W
Azar-Cavanagh, Madelynn
Behrman, Michael J
Biscaro, Carlo Z
Burt, Andrew K
Campbell, Keith
Carlson, Gregory D
Chalmers, Rives C
Chan, Mark H
Chandler, Robert W
Cheng, Leo
Cohen, Michael
Coward, David B
Din, Arfan
Dorinson, Malvern
Duncan, Matthew W
Ferretti, Robert S
Fischer, James G
Fogel, Joseph P
Freeman, David B
Friel, John C
Gillard, Douglas M
Gjerdeum, Thor
Goodman, Paul M
Gunther, Stephen B
Hanna, G
Hardy, Scott E
Harris, Thomas W
Hemsley, Lauri B
Henderson, Rodney
Herrick, Robert T
Hyman, Mark
Hoover, Gerald C
Ibrahim, Sameer M
Ingogna, Marta
Irvine, Wilmer J
Janovitch, Kimberly
Jody, Gilbert S
Johnson, Earnest E
Johnson, Mark S
Kane, Norman
Kusens, Ilene
Lane, John G
Levine, Gerald B
Levine, Robert T
Lin, James T
Livermore, Norman B
MacMorran, Ian
Majcher, Stanley J
Majidian, Alexander M
Marusak, Carl E. and Gregory
McKinney, David W.
Miles, Thomas P
Miner, Maureen D
Noriega, Robert
O’Malley, Michael
Padveen, Brian
Peatman, Thomas
Perlman, Richard D
Perry, Wendell
Post, Michael C
Potenza, Bruce
Prietto, Carlos A
Quinn, Michael H
Riemer, Richard B
Rose, Robert A
Ross, Timothy K
Roth, Andrew
Shalom, Daniel V
Sohn, Calvin C
Stavropoulos, Yannis M
Strait, James L
Suchard, David P
Tafreshi, Julian
Tantuwaya, Lokesh S
Troy, Edward J
Vest, Ishan B
Viess, Stephen R
Wallace, Theodore
Weber, Miles L
Yung, Jeffrey
Zaharoff, Konstantin


Success Story
“Ah, Phil, another brilliant performance from a consumate professional.  You had them in the aisles.  Outstanding.” 

Zachary H. Sacks, Sacks and Zolonz, LLP