Florida Regulatory Workers' Compensation News

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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PeopleKeep

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The percentage of workers covered under HDHP plans has increased from four percent of all employer-sponsored health insurance plans in 2006 to 31 percent in 2020. A high deductible health plan (HDHP) paired with a Health Savings Account (HSA) is growing in popularity because it allows employees to pay for medical expenses tax-free.

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cipHR

JANUARY 9, 2020

Long working days and fewer daylight hours in the UK during the winter months mean many office-based workers probably don’t get enough exposure to sunlight – meaning employers and line managers have a duty of care to support those experiencing SAD. Sleeping for longer than normal and finding it hard to get up in the morning.

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Insperity

JANUARY 27, 2015

When it comes to first impressions, a person will form an opinion of the other person within the first 500 milliseconds of meeting, according to a Princeton University study in 2006. Therefore, it’s important for your employees to dress appropriately for your business. Get a policy in place.

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The Workcomp Writer

JULY 26, 2024

This constitutional provision gives the Legislature “plenary power, unlimited by any provision of this Constitution” to create a workers’ compensation system. The Court relied heavily on its 2006 decision in Independent Energy Producers Association v. McPherson , (2006) 38 Cal.4th 4th 1020, 136 P.3d 3d 178, 44 Cal.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 8, 2024

The case involved a worker who was injured when opening an electrical panel in the course of his employment. 2d 477 - NJ: Supreme Court 2006 and Charles Beseler Co. 2d 47 - NJ: Supreme Court 2006 cases. ORDER NOW Gelman on Workers' Compensation Law 3rd Ed. DELTA PLASTICS, 911 A. O'Gorman & Young, 911 A.

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Florida Workers' Comp

APRIL 13, 2023

Back in 2006, I enjoyed some debate in the legal world spurred by the title of our legal degrees. A member of the Board of Governors in that 2006 debate "noted that in Spanish-speaking countries it is customary to refer to attorneys as doctors in law, and common for clients to refer to their attorney as 'doctor.'”

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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. Not so much.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In other words, if you don’t let your workers participate in defining the company’s direction, it becomes very hard for them to buy into your company’s values. According to research, the single most important factor determining employee commitment is participation in decision-making. appeared first on The HR Digest.

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Florida Workers' Comp

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There are those who have lamented the decline in lawyering skills in the subculture of workers' compensation. I am often reminded of the movie Idiocracy (20th Century, 2006). Trials will increasingly be video exchanges (Texas reportedly just announced all their workers' compensation trials will now be video).

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An excellent monograph in 2006 tried to tackle the question by defining the "meaning of Art and Science in terms of Medicine." 2006 Jan-Dec; 4(1): 127–138. That is likely why our workers' compensation statute says that decisions have to be "based on objective relevant medical findings," but not exclusively so. The author, S.C.

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The Workcomp Writer

AUGUST 27, 2024

Background Patricia Dianne Arnold suffered a work-related back injury on August 19, 2006, while employed by Victoryland. This distinction is crucial, as an employer can be relieved of continuing obligation for medical expenses if a worker acts rashly or recklessly and is injured as a result. Arnold, 2024 Ala. Victoryland appealed.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 9, 2022

In the Ford to Carter era (1976-1980), these workers were 11 to 15 years old, and likely remember little of the inflationary era. Thus, there is some evidence that a majority of American workers find themselves in the most inflationary times they have experienced or remember. The topic of Wikipedia is not new.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MARCH 6, 2022

Workers' Compensation Appeals Board , C093293, January 5, 2022, the Court's opinion was nonetheless instructive on several points. The Benefit Trust Fund paid an injured worker certain benefits, and filed a lien in the workers' compensation proceeding. hours of the injured workers' attorney's time at $400 per hour.

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Florida Workers' Comp

DECEMBER 26, 2023

What does this have to do with workers' compensation? 1 (October 2006): 129-176.; It suggests that synonyms are "cheating or copying," and explains that schools forbid it "because colleges and universities value honesty and academic integrity from their students." Might a Board expect it at a university generally?

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 13, 2024

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. 2006) , Beseler Co. See, Millison v. Du Pont De Nemours & Co., 2d 505 (N.J. 2d 884 (N.J. 34:15-8."

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Florida Workers' Comp

DECEMBER 19, 2021

One proudly told me in 2020 how they had "figured out" how to accept electronic trial exhibits (which we began doing in 2006). The systems for injured worker care and return-to-work survived. I ran into a state official last week who was lamenting the challenges of managing remote workers. But, we persevered. Well, perhaps.

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Florida Workers' Comp

APRIL 16, 2024

Another email exchange that sticks in my mind occurred close to the end of my time on the Pensacola Bench in 2006. The blasts are sent no more than monthly and are intended to steer the community to important happenings or challenges in workers' compensation. We get a couple of those everytime we send out an email blast to our users.

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Florida Workers' Comp

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It seems like that event can be referenced in regard to a multitude of changes in the world of work, and workers' compensation is no different. workers have gotten way less productive." (Not This is based on "worker output," which has fallen recently to levels not seen in America since 1947. How can productivity be maintained?

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 10, 2023

The world of Florida workers' compensation seemed a bit unsteady this week. This is colloquially referred to as the "heart/lung bill," and entitles some classes of Florida workers to a presumption of causation. The worker "leaned exclusively on the occupational-causation presumption." 1st DCA 2006). John Harlem , Case No.

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Florida Workers' Comp

AUGUST 10, 2023

The world of Florida workers' compensation seemed a bit unsteady this week. This is colloquially referred to as the "heart/lung bill," and entitles some classes of Florida workers to a presumption of causation. The worker "leaned exclusively on the occupational-causation presumption." 1st DCA 2006). John Harlem , Case No.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Background Michael DiPippo had an established workers’ compensation claim from a 2006 work-related fall, which included various injuries and was later amended to include right leg deep vein thrombosis and obesity. Accurate Signs & Awnings , 2024 N.Y. LEXIS 5067 (Oct.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MAY 22, 2022

In Florida workers' compensation, these are interesting times. In 2003 the first Chapter 60Q-6 Rules of Procedure for Workers' Compensation Adjudications were adopted (they have been changed and refined since). In 2005, the electronic filing paradigm came quietly to the scene, and in 2006 we began enthusiastically promoting it.

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Workers' Compensation

MAY 30, 2022

The “exclusivity doctrine,” permitting a complete recovery of damages against an employer, limits an injured worker’s benefit recovery to the compensation system, barring an intentional tort. A worker was hired by a general staffing agency, New York Mutual, Inc. Workers' Compensation Law § 7.7 (3d Gelman, Jon L., Gelman, Jon L.,

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

John Dunlop was among the first to discuss the interaction of three major groups—management, workers and their personal organizations, and the government. This not long after UPS narrowly avoided a strike recently, just a week ahead of when workers were set to walk out.

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Talent Culture

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Everyone seems to be a dedicated, loyal, hard-worker, not to mention a great communicator and a team player. The touchy-feely. Most resumes I see start out with an overview paragraph describing the person’s personal attributes. Yet there is no actual proof that the candidate possesses any of these personal attributes on the resume.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 17, 2023

News this week has been dominated by headlines about the numerous strikes taking place across the country, in bids to secure pay increases for junior doctors, teachers, rail and tube workers. This had previously been introduced under pensions simplification legislation in 2006.

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cipHR

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Providing the opportunity for employees to seclude themselves, in order to work distraction free, is important when it comes to general productivity and affording workers the ability to work to a deadline. Open spaces allow for better communication and exchange of information among co-workers.

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Hppy

JANUARY 24, 2022

Employees that are losing their jobs face financial struggles while workers that are kept on will be dealing with increased work responsibilities. In contrast, the number of mass workplace shootings that were carried out by former or current employees from 2006 to February 2020 only totalled 13.

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Workers' Compensation

APRIL 24, 2023

The case is similar to the claims right by family members of asbestos workers who brought fiber home on their clothes, contaminated the household environment, and subjected the household members to diseases such as asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma. 2d 1143 - NJ: Supreme Court 2006. Owens-Illinois, Inc. ,

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Global People Strategist

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Instead, workers with this contract can only support activities that are not integral to the company. However, the same temporary employee cannot be employed more than once.Fixed-term workers can be hired if a company has extra workload and needs more workers to meet orders. Minimum Wage.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 21, 2024

3) of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act provides that, after a claimant has received TTD for a period of 104 weeks, unless otherwise agreed, the claimant must submit to an IRE to “determine the degree of impairment due to the compensable injury” [77 P.S. § 511.3(1)]. Turner (WCAB), 2024 Pa. LEXIS 225 (Pa. 17, 2024)].

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Attorney Charlie Hall

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

36] IRWE, especially with the newer rule, are especially effective in reducing a disabled worker’s earnings. When an employer pays an employee who has “serious medical impairments” more than their services warrant, the disabled worker has received an employer subsidy. [37] The second tool is the employer subsidy. 720 or 80 hours*.

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Florida Workers' Comp

APRIL 30, 2023

nk and her hit by the same name (LaFace 2006). Unfortunately, I will likely never know who. So, an admission at the start that hurricanes are less than predictable. Yes, who knew. That reminded me of P!nk It is glorious May and Respite 2022-23 draws to a close.

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 14, 2023

McPherson (2006) 38 Cal.4th Justice Streeter added that Prop 22 undermined the complete system of workers’ compensation that the people had expressly defined in article XIV, section 4 of the state Constitution. The majority relied upon, inter alia , decisions of the California Supreme Court [ Independent Energy Producers Assn.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MAY 4, 2023

I have waited for some change, and worried over the prophecy of Idiocracy (20th Century 2006). Have you reached out to co-workers? There is lots of "its not me, it's them." I have lamented various swells of groupthink and complacency. If I don't agree with you, that does not make me wrong. Does that mean we cannot discuss?

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 20, 2022

Those who worked in and about the area may be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits for related medical conditions as a result of the occupational exposure. Beginning in 2006, EPA reinstated Ringwood Mines to the National Priorities List. Individuals should consult an attorney-at-law to review the matter on a timely basis.

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