The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 25, 2024

Background Plaintiff Robin Kluttz-Ellison, employed at Noah’s Playloft Preschool, filed two workers’ compensation claims alleging that she had sustained injuries in two separate incidents. To prove claims for workers’ compensation benefits, employees must prove that the workplace accident caused their injuries.

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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.

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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.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JANUARY 1, 2019

Workers with permanent disabilities often don’t have those options. The monthly workers’ compensation amount they receive may have sustained them initially but unless it is adjusted for the cost of living, permanently disabled workers will see the buying power of their workers’ compensation income decline with each passing year.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Workers’ compensation “reforms” are typically focused on reducing employer costs. Enacted reforms often result in restrictions that limit rather than enhance benefits to workers. Sadly, even the minimum levels recommended by that report are often missing from current workers’ compensation statutes.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The potential for workplace safety liability is a near constant in discussions of workers' compensation. It involves a workers' compensation claim that is instructive in its various potential points of discussion. Mitchell's only recourse if any, should be through the New Mexico workers' compensation system.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

This week, the Workers' Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) hosts its 38th Annual Issues and Research Conference in Boston. In all, a well-rounded program with something for all of the workers' compensation community. I have studied workers' compensation for decades and would find such an undertaking monumental.

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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. The court also addressed due process and full faith and credit claims raised by the Kansas Workers Compensation Fund. Relying on U.S. Lanza, 349 U.S.

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