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Workers' Compensation Perspectives
MARCH 23, 2020
Regardless of the workers’ compensation model (private insurance, competitive state fund, exclusive state fund), every insurer has to prepare for the unexpected. As noted in my last post, the COVID-19 event most certainly is a rare event and just as assuredly will result in accepted workers’ compensation claims.
Florida Workers' Comp
AUGUST 23, 2022
The world of workers' compensation is geographic and diverse. There is no workers' compensation "system," but at least 60 systems across the country. Virgin Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Norther Marianna Islands, the Jones Act, and the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Act all come to mind.
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Florida Workers' Comp
JANUARY 11, 2024
In 2018 Forum Recap and Professionalism (April 2018) ; 2015 Frierson-Colling Professionalism Award (2015), I had the chance to discuss professionalism and The Florida Bar Workers' Compensation Section's efforts to recognize it in their members. Myers who was a legend in Florida workers' compensation before my time.
Workers' Compensation
JANUARY 29, 2022
The admissibility of scientific evidence has perennially been a controversial issue in workers’ compensation hearings. State Requirements New Jersey follows a guideline for the admission and reliance upon scientific evidence in occupational disease workers' compensation cases. In Lindquist v. 244, 814 A.2d
Florida Workers' Comp
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Similarly, the Florida workers' compensation system has experienced various efforts over the last century to limit or define attorney's fees, and to focus judicial discretion. There was tinkering with those factors, and an eventual 2003 departure from the "presumptive" fee analysis. Then came Murray v. 3d 431 (Fla.
The Workcomp Writer
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Heartiest congratulations to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as it celebrates 100 years of service to the workers’ compensation system. Our” system has seen substantial changes over the years and NCCI has deftly adapted along with it. The winnowing was not easy. Minneapolis St. 315, 41 N.W.2d
Workers' Compensation Perspectives
JUNE 2, 2024
Last time, we outlined the growth in mental disorder/psychological injury claims in workers' compensation and related workplace insurance programs. For workers’ compensation, growing recognition of the work-relatedness of mental injuries requires changes to legislation and policy allowing for compensation.
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