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.

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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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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.

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Florida Workers' Comp

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Merriam Webster provides the following definition: "something or someone arising from or associated with an earlier time, especially when regarded as no longer appropriate, relevant, or important" And, the world of workers' compensation has historically demonstrated some history of various artifacts, Jacobson v. Leasing, Inc. ,

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

It is, of course, one thing for a state to allow the use of marijuana in the treatment of injuries and diseases, but quite another to require employers and/or insurers to reimburse injured workers in connection with a workers’ compensation claim. Stat. . §§ 26-2B-1 to 26-2B-7, et seq.), Four have ruled that it cannot.

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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. 2009), and a side-step of the constitutionality question, followed by the Court's most recent analysis in Castellanos v. Mariner , 995 1051 (Fla.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 11, 2022

Fewer may remember Surrogates (Walt Disney Pictures 2009), a strange combination of virtuality and robotics. Other state's workers' compensation systems "figured out" how to accept electronic documents as evidence. You can reflect back on the Hollywood preparations for our foray into the next virtual world.

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