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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.
The Workcomp Writer
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
In a significant decision that reinforces the rights of workers with long-latency occupational diseases within the Keystone State, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed in relevant part a trial court’s final judgment awarding a deceased worker’s estate more than $2.3 AK Steel Corp. The Tooey Decision In Tooey v. 3d 851 (Pa.
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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.
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. Either measure of discretion may allow for outcomes that are seen by the public as unacceptable, a person receiving too light or too stringent a sentence.
Workers' Compensation
JULY 14, 2023
A report released today by the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) finds that the agency that manages workers’ compensation claims filed by state employees failed to remedy deficiencies identified three years ago. OSC’s 2020 audit found that six claimants collectively filed 266 claims between 1978 and 2016.
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.
Workers' Compensation
APRIL 5, 2022
The EPA has proposed its first-ever risk management rule under the 2016 Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act. For decades workers and bystanders have been exposed to asbestos fiber and have tragically suffered asbestos-related diseases and death flowing from exposure to asbestos fiber. Recommended Citation: Gelman, Jon L.,
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