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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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More Rust

Florida Workers' Comp

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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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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Kansas Court Affirms Out-of-State Injury Compensable Under Kansas Comp Act

The Workcomp Writer

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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Florida’s Special Firefighter Cancer Statute Cannot Be Applied Retroactively

The Workcomp Writer

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 workerscompensation benefits. The statute did not simply alter the means by which firefighters obtain already-existing workerscompensation benefits. Background.

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Anonymity and Emotional Intelligence

Florida Workers' Comp

I have heard from lawyers for years regarding their perceptions of the Florida workers' compensation system, and those who run it. Their many thoughts and the promise of constructive feedback led to the implementation of the annual joint survey implemented by the OJCC and The Florida Bar Workers' Compensation Section.

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

The Workcomp Writer

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 WorkersCompensation system. IAB: Employer Met its Burden.