New York's highest court of appeals has held that no-fault insurers cannot deny no-fault benefits where they unilaterally determine that a provider has committed misconduct based upon alleged fraudulent conduct. The Court held that this authority belongs solely to state regulators, specifically New York's Board of Regents, which oversees professional licensing and discipline. This follows a similar recent ruling in Florida reported in this publication.
National Associations Open Discussion Forums on Chiroweb.com
For more than a year, chiroweb.com has provided its users with online discussion forums to express their opinions and share ideas about chiropractic.
Now, chiropractic's two largest associations, the American Chiropractic Association and the International Chiropractors Association, have joined chiroweb.com by offering their own discussion forums. By the time you read this, both the ACA and ICA will have had their discussion forums up and running on line for more than two weeks.
Users can access the ACA's discussion forum directly at
www.chiroweb.com/cgi-bin/forum/aca.cgi.
The address for the ICA's forum is
www.chiroweb.com/cgi-bin/forum/ica.cgi.
The complete list of chiroweb.com's discussion boards can be found at
www.chiroweb.com/chat/chirodiscuss.html.