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

JULY 4, 2022

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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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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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 10, 2018

Every workers’ compensation system provides certain payments in the event of a work-related death of a worker. The expectation that workers’ compensation insurance will cover the full cost of a funeral and burial of an injured worker, however, is not the reality in all jurisdictions.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 11, 2022

Other state's workers' compensation systems "figured out" how to accept electronic documents as evidence. I recently read an article in which a workers' compensation judge explained a state's decision to eschew video as it presented too many challenges; Florida, on the contrary, switched to video with nary a hitch.

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