Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JUNE 2, 2024

Last time, we outlined the growth in mental disorder/psychological injury claims in workers' compensation and related workplace insurance programs. For workers’ compensation, growing recognition of the work-relatedness of mental injuries requires changes to legislation and policy allowing for compensation.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I recently ran across a fantastic retrospective published in 2018 by Time, " The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now. " In this little corner of the world that is workers' compensation, are there events that merit retention and attention as those that "matter right now?" I would suggest there are several.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

.); "total amount paid to employees over a period," hence, via records-keeping, "list of employees receiving pay." [ See [link] ] Today, the word “payroll” more often than not refers to the department or system that manage employer costs for a range of employee compensation components. More on that in a future post.

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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

MARCH 4, 2021

Work-related injury not only physical and mental pain, but any resulting disability also raises immediate questions Injured workers and family members often turn to their human resource (HR) and disability management (DM) professionals to provide guidance on workers’ compensation issues. California) to seven days (e.g.,

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AUGUST 22, 2019

[For the first part of this discussion, see “Workers’ Compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 1” at [link] or [link] ] In my previous post, I described the range of public policy insurance arrangements governments use in the workers’ compensation insurance market.

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 21, 2022

The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) declined to review the Minnesota Supreme Court’s decision prohibiting reimbursement of medical marijuana costs in a workers’ compensation claim. Therefore, the individual States will remain the authority on whether reimbursement for medical marijuana will be permitted in a workers' compensation claim.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 11, 2019

For more than a century, governments have pursued a social policy objective: to protect workers from work-related injury, disability, illness and death in a compassionate and sustainable way that still allows the economic activity and innovation necessary for societies to operate and thrive. Government interventions alter the market.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 24, 2022

In March 2022, I was honored to speak (briefly) at the Workers' Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) conference in Boston, see Friends, Romans, countrymen, lendme your ears (March 2022). However, society has moved on and "workers" today is more more acceptable; our workplaces are more diverse, vibrant, and inclusive.

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Workers' Compensation

MAY 31, 2022

The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is scheduled to conference the Minnesota Supreme Court’s decision prohibiting reimbursement of medical marijuana costs in a workers’ compensation claim. The petitioner further argues that Minnesota’s workers’ compensation system does not facilitate access to marijuana. 801 et seq.,

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 5, 2022

Background The workers’ compensation system faces an enormous challenge in 2022 as the novel consequences of the most recent surge of SARS-CoV-2 infection engulf the nation. Occupational Exposure as a Claim Occupational exposure claims were not initially included in the model workers’ compensation of the early 1900s.

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Empuls

JUNE 21, 2024

Moreover, 56% of the workers participated in the plans. The research also revealed that up to 77% of workers with access to employer-sponsored benefits, chose to participate in the program, increasing the take-up rate. 73 percent of civilian workers had access to retirement benefits in 2023.   Citations  1.

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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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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. Similarly, National Public Radio reported in 2018 regarding a case of sexual assault, and a recall effort regarding the judge. 3d 431 (Fla.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 11, 2022

Many remember Ready Player One (Warner Brothers 2018), a Spielberg expose on a dystopian brave new world. Other state's workers' compensation systems "figured out" how to accept electronic documents as evidence. And this is available right now. Lawyers in other states "learned" how to try a case by video.

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 12, 2024

As I point out below, boards’ and commissions’ broad use of lump-summing can sometimes undermine the core philosophy of workers’ compensation as a means of replacing a portion of lost earnings. 97-44 (2018). Within the workers’ compensation context, the issues are more complex and nuanced.

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