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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

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.

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

The Workcomp Writer

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed a decision of the Superior Court that in turn had affirmed a decision by the state’s Industrial Accident Board (“IAB”) granting an employer’s petition for review as well as the IAB’s findings g that the claimant’s ongoing narcotic pain medications were no longer compensable [ Sheppard v.

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An Evidence Constraint

Florida Workers' Comp

See Who is the Employer? 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.

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Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!

Florida Workers' Comp

This annual tradition has come to have special meaning for the workers' compensation attorney community because of the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers (CWCL). SARS-CoV-2 trifled with that in 2020 and 2021, but it returns in 2022 in the French Quarter of New Orleans. TIPS was crucial to the formation of the CWCL.

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California Supreme Court Upholds Core of Proposition 22

The Workcomp Writer

This decision marks another chapter in the ongoing saga of Prop 22, the 2020 voter initiative allowing ridesharing and delivery app companies like Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. State of California , S279622, 2024 Cal. LEXIS XXX (July 25, 2024)].

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Is Medicare-For-All a Prescription for Infectious Diseases in the Workplace?

Workers' Compensation

The workers’ compensation system nationally has been challenged over the last two plus years of the COVID Pandemic. The multi-state administered workers’ compensation program is based on a litigious patchwork of state programs with varying degrees of eligibility, procedures, and benefits.

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State of New Jersey Failed to Address Deficiencies in $96 Million Workers’ Compensation Program

Workers' Compensation

2020 AUDIT DEFICIENCIES OSC’s original 2020 audit found that the Treasury Department’s Division of Risk Management had inadequate processes and made incorrect payments in two out of three payments sampled. OSC’s 2020 audit found that six claimants collectively filed 266 claims between 1978 and 2016.