The Workcomp Writer

MAY 3, 2024

The exclusive remedy for the injured worker was under the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act. Coblentz received workers’ compensation benefits from Stanley National, but also filed a negligence lawsuit against Tractor Supply. Tractor Supply Co. LEXIS 190 (Apr. 4, 2013) (quoting Murray v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ,

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Florida Workers' Comp

MARCH 31, 2022

A great deal is changing in the world of Florida workers' compensation disputes. When the OJCC was transferred to the Division of Administrative Hearings (DOAH) in 2001, there was significant angst about how that marriage might work. In that 2001 Legislative session, language was added to section 440.44

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Employee Benefits

AUGUST 15, 2023

increase from July 2022 and the highest rate since 2001, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Greg Marsh, chief executive officer of Nous.co, added: “Wage increases may bring some short-term relief for workers. Median monthly pay for July 2023 has been estimated at £2,274, a 7.8% It was also a 22.3%

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Florida Workers' Comp

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The 2022-23 Florida OJCC Annual Report is likely the most introspective annual review in the world of workers' compensation adjudication. Florida has indeed witnessed much evolution and progress in the 88 years since workers’ compensation came to Florida. There are lawyers, employers, and employees who now face travel for hearings.

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Workers' Compensation

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Proper trial preparation is the key to a successful Worker's Compensation claim outcome. Workers’ compensation involves multiple claims and summary adversarial proceedings, but it is best to prepare every claim for trial rather than for settling each case. The facts presented in the trial indicated no deviation from employment.

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Global People Strategist

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here, we have outlined basic employment and leave laws in the Bahamas that foreign employers need to know. All local and international firms operating in the Bahamas must give preference for job vacancies to native workers. Hiring Employees. Employees who have worked for: 1 to 7 years are entitled to two weeks of pay.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It is axiomatic that in every American jurisdiction, once a workers’ compensation act has become applicable—either through compulsion or election—it affords the exclusive remedy for the injury by the employee or the employee’s dependents against the employer [see Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , § 100.01, et seq. ].

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The Workcomp Writer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The court acknowledged that had the alleged injury been witnessed by a representative of the employer, the result might have been different, the court stressed that the former employee had come forward with no evidence that the employer knew of the alleged work-relatedness of the injury or that he would eventually file a workers’ compensation claim.

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 21, 2022

Yeager sought workers’ compensation benefits related to his alleged exposure to COVID-19 at work. In September 2020, a Staff Hearing Officer allowed Yeager the right to benefits under Ohio’s Workers’ Compensation Fund, finding that Yeager had “COVID-19 Infection Exposure” while working as a furnace operator for the employer.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 18, 2024

We rapidly approach the 78th annual rendition of the Workers Compensation Institute. The Florida Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1995. Beginning in the 1960s, the conference was run by the state Division of Workers’ Compensation. Stevens, 145 Fla. 209, 198 So.

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The new rule is expected to have a significant impact on employers. The rule will help to ensure that the EPA has the information it needs to track asbestos use and to protect workers and the public from asbestos exposure. The EPA reporting rule will require an employer to report and classify the data for formal recording by the EPA.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Earlier this year, the department announced that t he labor force participation rate of disabled workers rose to 23.1 They also announced that the employment-to-population ratio stood at 21.3 Jobseekers can find opportunities from companies like Amazon , Dartmouth, HSBC, Warner Bros.

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Florida Workers' Comp

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Workers' compensation as a community is ever-changing. As an office, the OJCC was then beginning a new iteration of itself, a growth from its days in Commerce, Labor and Employment Security, and a deeper history of conjunctive co-existence in the old Commissions. The OJCC, workers' compensation, has a rich community.

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Workers' Compensation

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Wearing an employer-designated work uniform shouldn’t result in severe and debilitating occupational exposures. Unfortunately, some American Airlines flight attendants suffered injuries from wearing the flight uniforms prescribed by their employer. The lawsuit that they filed lawsuit resulted in a $1.1 Million award.

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Attorney Charlie Hall

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Program Operations Manual System (POMS) defines services as “any activity in employment or self-employment that is performed or is normally performed for pay or profit.” [3]. TWP in employment. Service months are calculated differently in employment and self-employment service periods. TWP in SELF-EMPLOYMEnT.

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Benefit Resource Inc.

MARCH 4, 2022

Based on data from (1) Kaiser Family Foundation Annual Employer Benefits Survey 2001 – 2021 & (2) US Inflation Calculator – [link]. The average deductible for a PPO increased from around $201 in 2001 to nearly $1,700 in 2021. For the past 20 years (likely longer), premiums have been increasing. times inflation.

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 28, 2024

Citing a 1928 decision by the state’s Supreme Court, the appellate court held that since the flu shot was not mandated by the employer, the fact that the inoculation was received at the employer’s facility, while the manager was on the clock, did not mean the injury was work-related. Walgreen Co. 2016-Ohio-8304, 2016 Ohio App.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 27, 2022

The seventh lawsuit filed today centers on a blueberry farm and blueberry processing operation in Hammonton that employs migrant farm workers who live on site. 1997-2001), and Hans Family Cleaners, Inc. 2001-2011). Named defendants in the case include dry cleaning businesses Elmwood Cleaners, Inc.

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Business Management Daily

JUNE 26, 2020

office workers: 28% anticipate taking fewer days off in the summer months compared to last year, because of COVID-19; 16% are taking more time off. office workers: 28% anticipate taking fewer days off in the summer months compared to last year, because of COVID-19; 16% are taking more time off. This year: crickets.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In a carefully reasoned opinion, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed a decision by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that denied benefits to a worker who sustained a torn Achilles tendon when he stepped from the employer’s parking lot into a vehicle to go home just following the ending of his shift [ Lewis v.

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Attorney Charlie Hall

DECEMBER 31, 2021

It provides vital safety net for American workers. Studies have revealed that a 20-year-old worker has a 1-in-4 chance of becoming disabled before reaching full retirement age. It administers Social Security benefits and has a budget of over a trillion dollars. The Social Security Administration employs more than 60,000 individuals.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 20, 2023

While business law has been my forte, I have enjoyed forays into workers' compensation, evidence, constitutional law, legal writing, and beyond. You see, workers' compensation and other issues have been addressed by elected representatives. As I have noted, workers' compensation is a statutory system.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 20, 2023

While business law has been my forte, I have enjoyed forays into workers' compensation, evidence, constitutional law, legal writing, and beyond. You see, workers' compensation and other issues have been addressed by elected representatives. As I have noted, workers' compensation is a statutory system.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MAY 30, 2023

There are many who watch for workers' compensation each session. There are many touched by this law, but relatively few can take the time to make workers' compensation their priority unless a systemic change is in discussion. The 2023 session will not join the annals of Florida workers' compensation history.

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Florida Regulatory Workers' Compensation News

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has determined the statewide average weekly wage paid by employers subject to the Florida Reemployment Assistance Program Law to be $970.58 for the four calendar quarters ending June 30, 2019. Section 440.12(2),

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2020

Employers give paid paternal leave in almost all high-income nations. The data was collected from 2001 to 2013. The study found that though the co-workers of a person on paid paternal leave have to take up more work and put in more hours, they are paid extra for the task.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JUNE 27, 2022

And, the opinion will perhaps have some Floridians remembering the ancient history of our own workers' compensation litigation. Essentially, in this case, Toler filed for workers' compensation benefits and litigation ensued. The employer engaged the services of a physician, to review the case and provide expert testimony.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MAY 22, 2022

In Florida workers' compensation, these are interesting times. In 2001, the Department of Labor ceased to exist and the OJCC moved to DOAH. In 2001, the Department of Labor ceased to exist and the OJCC moved to DOAH. So, buckle up, "it's coming around again." In 2011, electronic filing became mandatory.

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Global People Strategist

DECEMBER 9, 2021

There was a time when switching jobs could only be a dream, but now people can try diverse employment positions in different parts of the world thanks to rapid globalization. Despite the deplorable working conditions and low wages in rural India, workers choose to stay in their villages instead of relocating to more developed settlements.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 17, 2023

Some would argue that the ability of an employer to fire an injured employee because he or she is still recuperating from the injury and, therefore, incapable of performing the required tasks of the job is adding insult to injury. The employer can still face continuing liability under the respective Workers’ Compensation Act.

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

Stock prices tank when rude CEOs are caught mistreating service workers. Rather than be treated as equals and peers, workers are relegated to desperation. I’m hard-pressed to imagine a better example of workplace incivility than terminating someone’s employment while rebuffing their pleas for an explanation.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 2, 2020

The wave mirrors the discrimination Middle Easterners experienced following the September 11, 2001 attacks. As during that period, employers may face similar episodes in the workplace. The incidents may cause employer liability as either national origin discrimination or racial discrimination.

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The Workcomp Writer

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Workers’ Comp. Since the employer’s outlay for workers’ compensation benefits exceeded the $150,000 held in escrow, all the funds (after payment of litigation expenses) had to be paid over to the employer. for lost wages, of which Employer paid $65,662.91; $16,997.42 Employer’s Proposed Distribution.

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The Workcomp Writer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Background Braden was hired by Seminole County as a firefighter in 1993 after a clean pre-employment physical. Notably, in all three, the employer/carrier/serving agent conceded that the “heart lung” statute applied and, thus, its presumption of work causation for the claimant’s impairment or condition.

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 25, 2023

The Florida Highway Patrol hired Friesen as a law enforcement officer in 2001 after he underwent a pre-employment physical. No workers’ compensation paperwork was completed, and Friesen did not pursue a workers’ compensation claim. Friesen was diagnosed with hypertension. 1)(a), Fla.

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The Workcomp Writer

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Yesterday, a Florida appellate court held the state’s Workers’ Compensation Code (Code) does not authorize a Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) to strike a physician authorized by the Employer/Carrier (E/C) under the one-time-change statute, § 440.13(2)(f), 2)(f), Fla. 69L-7.020]. Napier , 791 So. 2d 1160 (Fla.

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HR Digest

MAY 7, 2019

According to a study by the Institute For Women’s Policy Research, in 2017, full-time and year-round female workers earned only 80.5 In 2017, the median earnings of full-time and year-round male workers was $52,146 and median earnings of full-time and year-round female workers were $ 41,977 – representing a 20 percent pay gap.

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