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Nelson, of Belleville, IL There is significant geographic and practical breadth here with these speakers coming from very different workers' compensationsystems and hopefully I will add a national perspective. Delays in care are increasingly lamented in workers' compensation and the issue is challenging. MODERATOR: James M.
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2d 283 (1996) ( Pittman )], it nevertheless reversed the Court of Appeals in the instant case, determining that neither the lower appellate court nor the state’s Industrial Commission had properly applied the test. The Commission ultimately consolidated plaintiff’s claims for a single hearing. 124, 468 S.E.2d
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