Liberty Mutual

Liberty Mutual Stiffs QME - Attorneys Required

Hello California Workers’ Comp Attorneys, Medical-Legal physicians in this state need your help. Payers like Liberty Mutual have found a way to skirt the Independent ...

Med-Legal ML106: IBRs Leave No Doubt

If it wasn’t clear before, it certainly is now. Physicians should bill for supplemental Medical-Legal reports requested before April 1, 2021 with billing code ML106, regardle...

ML106: Liberty Mutual Must Learn the Rules

California’s all-new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS) debuted back in April, but some claims administrators are still a few steps behind. To bill for supplemental Med...

Med-Legal Bill Denied for Liability? Request IBR

Certain California workers’ comp payers deny reimbursement for Medical-Legal evaluations by claiming lack of liability for the initial injury. With this twisted, circular log...

Data PROVES Electronic Billing for Workers' Comp Works

COVID-19 and our recent elections highlight the flaws, delays, and increasing creakiness of the US postal system. In 2020, as mail fails, electronic bill transmission offers ...

Liberty Mutual Sued by Employer

According to a federal lawsuit filed in October, Liberty Mutual Insurance may be playing its workers’ comp cards a little too close to the chest.The lawsuit, Valley Co...

Liberty Mutual and a Cautionary Tale of Payment Woes

Today we’re sharing a maddening and all-too-common story of payment woes, this time featuring Liberty Mutual as the miscreant that just won’t pay a bill correctly -- despite ...

Liberty Mutual, Gallagher Bassett, Chubb Scoff at CA IBR Rules

It’s still happening: claims administrators including Liberty Mutual, Gallagher Bassett, and Chubb are ignoring the rules regarding Independent Bill Review (IBR), brazenly re...

Costco, Home Depot, & Other Employers Should Be Mad as HEL*

Recently a provider shared a letter, apparently meant to intimidate, that it received from a Liberty Mutual Network Specialist, Peter Spalding. The letter threatened to kick ...