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The 800-Pound Gorilla

Florida Workers' Comp

Some believe that the distinction is somehow starker in the community of workers' compensation, but I am dubious. Some believe that part of our workers' compensation challenge is based upon a conscious decision to neither recruit nor train young professionals early in the 21st century. There will always be workers' compensation.

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Insurance Agent's Conduct Determines Liability for Failure to Inform an Employer of Workers' Compensation Coverage Options

Workers' Compensation

The NJ Supreme court held that the insurance agent's conduct must be a willful, wanton, or grossly negligent act of commission or omission for failure to advise an employer about workers' compensation coverage for a Limited Liability Corporation. Informed by the Legislature’s expression of public policy in N.J.S.A. Consistent with N.J.S.A.

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NJ Supreme Court to Review Workplace Insurance Exclusion

Workers' Compensation

The NJ Supreme Court will review whether a workers’ compensation insurance company has a duty to defend an employer against personal injury claims brought by the employer’s employee under an employer's liability insurance policy. 2002) , requires showing the employer knew its actions were substantially certain to result in injury or death.

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Failure to Disclose Prior Work-Related Injuries Proves Fatal for NY Worker’s Claim for Continued Benefits

The Workcomp Writer

A New York appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that found an injured worker’s failure to disclose work-related injuries he sustained in 1998 and 2002, for which he received schedule loss of use awards, was the sort of misrepresentation prohibited by N.Y. Workers’ Comp.

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Utah Court Clarifies State’s Approach to Idiopathic Falls on Hard Surfaces

The Workcomp Writer

Court’s Analysis The Court clarified its stance on idiopathic falls in workers’ compensation cases. Citing Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , the court indicated that it was joining a “significant minority” of jurisdictions that allow compensation for idiopathic level-floor falls under certain circumstances.

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Zen and the Art of Trial

Florida Workers' Comp

Something has kept me in workers’ compensation and the OJCC. First, I was surprised to meet people who are working to become part of workers’ compensation. And it is not just workers’ compensation. But, to summarize: Civil cases in federal court resolved by trial about: 20% in in 1938 12% in 1962 2% in 2002 1%.

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Office design goes to the movies

Workplace Insight

High concept noir sci-fi, based on a book by Philip K Dick of course; dystopian, chock full of ideas and technology that seemed cool and subversive in 2002 and is mundane in 2013. Minority Report We obviously like films like this. many ways, the layout has much in common with the way many offices are designed now.