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WCI 2024 is Upon Us

Florida Workers' Comp

The institute is a cross-section of every interest group in the workers' compensation system. Profits from the conference are used to enhance the workers' compensation system. Initially, the institute provided a series of "grants" to assist the system. The medical courses will continue on a permanent basis.

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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Our compensation systems are designed to minimize risk of bias based on race and gender and we’re confident they’re sound. Nevertheless, we need to continuously assess compensation programs to ensure they’re living up to their principles. This article was published in the July 2019 issue of The HR Digest magazine.

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

The Workcomp Writer

On December 2, 2019, the employer petitioned to terminate the compensability of Sheppard’s narcotic medications and injection treatment pursuant to 19 Del. Jason Brokaw, a board-certified physical medicine, rehabilitation, and pain management doctor, and a certified provider under the Delaware Workers’ Compensation system.

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New EPA Rule Will Lighten the Burden of Proving an Asbestos-Related Disease Claim

Workers' Compensation

Reporting Requirements The new EPA asbestos reporting rule requires certain entities that manufactured, imported, or processed asbestos from 2019 to 2022 with annual sales of $500,000 or more to report their asbestos use. 3d 397 - Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2019. See also, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families v. US EPA , 943 F.

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Florida’s Special Firefighter Cancer Statute Cannot Be Applied Retroactively

The Workcomp Writer

The trial court agreed, finding the statute “creates a new substantive right, is not remedial in nature, and does not apply retroactively to cancer diagnoses occurring prior to its effective date of July 1, 2019.” The statute did not simply alter the means by which firefighters obtain already-existing workers’ compensation benefits.

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The Disability Insurance “trust gap” Part 1: Causes

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Whether you work as a Case Manager for workers’ compensation system, a client services representative for a transport-accident personal-injury insurance, a claims administrator for a non-occupational disability insurance plan, or a return-to-work specialist for a third-party administrator, you will face the disability insurance “trust gap”. [See

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Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!

Florida Workers' Comp

Nelson, of Belleville, IL There is significant geographic and practical breadth here with these speakers coming from very different workers' compensation systems and hopefully I will add a national perspective. Delays in care are increasingly lamented in workers' compensation and the issue is challenging.