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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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Awards and Memories

Florida Workers' Comp

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. Not so much.

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Alabama Court Applies Successive-Compensable-Injury Test to Non-Work-Related Accident

The Workcomp Writer

Background Patricia Dianne Arnold suffered a work-related back injury on August 19, 2006, while employed by Victoryland. Court’s Analysis Applying the successive-compensable-injury test from Ex parte Pike County Commission , 740 So. Workers’ Compensation Comm’r , 174 W.Va. Arnold, 2024 Ala. 2d 1080 (Ala.

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Strict Arkansas Statute Does Not Bar Recovery for Nurse’s Slip and Fall During Lunch Break

The Workcomp Writer

An Arkansas appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission awarding benefits to a registered nurse, who worked in a supervisory position, for injuries she sustained when she tripped on a sidewalk at work, finding the Commission’s decision was supported by substantial evidence [ CHI St.

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Issue Commentary: NY Decision Shows That Not All “Misrepresentations” Are Sufficient to Warrant Disqualification from Future Benefits

The Workcomp Writer

Stressing that it was not the role of the appellate court to second-guess the Board’s resolution of factual and credibility issues, a New York appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that found a workers’ compensation claimant had not violated N.Y. Workers’ Comp. Workers’ Comp.

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Issue Commentary: Compensability of Injuries Sustained as a Result of Inoculations

The Workcomp Writer

Background Rolsen sought workers’ compensation benefits after he suffered an adverse reaction to a pneumonia vaccination that he received while he was on duty as a manager at his employer’s Walgreens retail store. Elephant in the Room The appellate court stressed that Rolsen was ignoring “the elephant in the room.”

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1992-2012: My 20-year Affair with Spain

Ahmed's Universe

Here are some quirks of Spanish payroll: parallel payroll process, peculiar retro calculations, the multiplicity of labor agreements which cover every aspect of a worker''s with their employer. This also shows that this lost generation is quite talented, come to think of it.