Workers' Compensation Perspectives
MARCH 23, 2020
The “Unknown” occupational disease risk in workers’ compensation When workers’ compensation systems started a century ago, the focus was “industrial accidents”. page U47] Over time, most workers’ compensation systems adapted to include coverage for occupational diseases. This limitation was noted at the time.
The Workcomp Writer
OCTOBER 21, 2024
More than nine years later, on November 17, 2017, Henretty suffered a work injury in Montana when she fractured her right ankle after slipping on ice in the employer’s parking lot. Healthcenter Nw., 127,123, 2024 Kan. Henretty began work at the Montana facility on August 11, 2008.
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Florida Workers' Comp
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Mitchell's only recourse if any, should be through the New Mexico workers' compensation system. In the workers' compensation and litigation arena, this is referred to as "exclusive remedy," and it is one of the pillars of workers' comp. Others allow compensation for benefits related to emotional injury without physical trauma.
The Workcomp Writer
JUNE 28, 2022
On August 1, 2017, the IAB affirmed the decision of the utilization reviewer and found that Dr. Dickinson failed to substantiate the reasonableness and necessity of her treatment related to Sheppard. Grady was also a certified provider under the Delaware Workers’ Compensation system. IAB: Employer Met its Burden.
The Workcomp Writer
OCTOBER 26, 2022
In 2017, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which she attributed to her years of service as a firefighter. She did not, however, file for workers’ compensation benefits. The statute did not simply alter the means by which firefighters obtain already-existing workers’ compensation benefits. Background.
The Workcomp Writer
MARCH 25, 2024
Additional Causal Test: Treatment Must Be Directly Related to Original Injury Yet, here too, stressed the majority, North Carolina’s appellate courts had imposed an additional causal requirement to safeguard the purpose of the workers’ compensation system. 2d 838 (2017). City of Greenville , 369 N.C. 730, 799 S.E.2d
Florida Workers' Comp
JANUARY 11, 2024
Myers, FL) 2009 Stewart Colling (Orlando, FL) 2010 Richard Sicking (Miami, FL) 2011 Jacob Schickel (Jacksonville, FL) 2012 Herbert Langston (Orlando, FL) 2013 Ramon Malca (Miami, FL) 2014 Richard Thompson (Sarasota, FL) 2015 Richard Chait (Miami, FL) 2016 Thomas Conroy (Hollywood, FL/Las Vegas) 2017 Dawn Traverso (Miami, FL) 2018 Hon.
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