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21 Financial Events and Trends During 2021

Money Talk

Fraud- Top fraud categories reported by the Federal Trade Commission in a 2021 report were imposter, online, and internet services scams. Average monthly payments in 2021 were $563, $397, and $450, respectively, for new, used, and leased vehicles.

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SC Appellate Court Chides Commission for Summarily Dismissing Appeal

The Workcomp Writer

Here, the commission had failed to articulate how, or even whether, it had used its discretion in coming to its decision to dismiss the appeal. A single commissioner denied Hartford’s motion, and Hartford appealed to the full commission. On June 17, 2019, the commission, without explanation, denied Hartford’s motion to reinstate.

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UK see largest contraction in Labour Force since the 1980s

Workplace Insight

The final report from the two-year Commission on the Future of Employment Support claims that the UK needs ‘once-in-a-generation reform’ to boost growth and improve living standards in the face of a huge contraction in the country’s labour force.

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Diligence, Efficiency, and Promptness

Florida Workers' Comp

Judges in Florida are subject to a process of discipline that includes the Judicial Qualifications Commission or JQC. Complaints can be lodged there and the Commission is charged with investigation and recommendation. The Commission investigation revealed "dozens of cases and significant delays in rulings and orders."

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Workgroup Report on Civil Cases

Florida Workers' Comp

There were various legislative adjustments to the impacts of the "wage loss" experiment of 1979, and other responses to the "recommendations" of the National Commission in 1974; see A 21st Century National Commission (April 2013); Where do We Go From Here (March 2016). These were "presumed to be appropriate for expedited resolution."

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The Florida OJCC Today

Florida Workers' Comp

For half that time, until the IRC was abolished in 1979 (44 years), the OJCC was within the quasi-regulatory/appellate structure of the two Commissions. From 1979 to 2001 (22 years), it was within the Department of Labor, though there were changes in that department’s status.

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Ohio Court Affirms Finding that Furnace Worker’s COVID-19 Was Not Compensable

The Workcomp Writer

The Industrial Commission declined to hear the employer’s appeal and the employer filed an administrative appeal in the Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas. 01CA36, 2001 Ohio App. 20, 2001), the appellate court stressed: It is not contemplated by the law makers that the law should cover health insurance. Not Health Insurance.

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