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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Regardless of the workerscompensation 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 workerscompensation claims.

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WCI 2024 is Upon Us

Florida Workers' Comp

We rapidly approach the 78th annual rendition of the Workers Compensation Institute. The Florida WorkersCompensation Educational Conference celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1995. Beginning in the 1960s, the conference was run by the state Division of WorkersCompensation. Stevens, 145 Fla. 209, 198 So.

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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.

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An Evidence Constraint

Florida Workers' Comp

The bill is of interest in the workers' compensation community because we have a fair number of opportunities to examine the "employer/employee relationship" in the context of various statutory sections. The application of workers' compensation in Florida is dependent upon that employment relationship. March 2021).

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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 WorkersCompensation 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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Delaware Employer Need Not Pay for Claimant’s Opioids More than 9 Years After Accident

The Workcomp Writer

Later, she sought and, in July 2014, was awarded permanent impairment for 10 percent to the cervical spine and 7 percent to the right upper extremity. Grady was also a certified provider under the Delaware WorkersCompensation system. Grady disagreed with Brokaw’s assessment that Sheppard was uncooperative.

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Top 10 Appellate Decisions During the 100 Years of NCCI

The Workcomp Writer

Heartiest congratulations to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as it celebrates 100 years of service to the workerscompensation 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