Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Today at the Comp Laude , we will try to channel his thought process as we discuss the hard topics of our present. The topics have evolved in the five years since David passed, but the challenges they present are not all that novel to this decade. If you have not registered and want to attend this presentation, let me know.

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 28, 2022

At the subsequent hearing, the employer presented one witness by deposition, Dr. Jason Brokaw, a board-certified physical medicine, rehabilitation, and pain management doctor, and a certified provider under the Delaware Workers’ Compensation system. Nurse Practitioner.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 4, 2022

One area in which this presents challenges is misclassification. There are multiple ways to strive to avoid the implications and costs of participating in the workers' compensation system. Characterizing workers as independent contractors has persistently been one of these.

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 21, 2022

Preemption Issue The question presented is: “Whether the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. preempts a state workers’ compensation order that compels an employer to reimburse an employee for the cost of marijuana used in response to pain arising from a work-related injury.” 801 et seq.,

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Despite the long legacy of severe and fatal claims, including lung cancer and mesothelioma, brought within the workers’ compensation system, the substance is still being used in products, and exposure continues from asbestos already in place in occupational settings.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 12, 2019

Does it matter to workers’ compensation if there is a single payer system in place? At the California state Department of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) Educational Conference, my presentation highlighted workers’ compensation healthcare spending. Time and format restricted the depth of that presentation.

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Workers' Compensation

MAY 31, 2022

Preemption Issue The question presented is: “Whether the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. preempts a state workers’ compensation order that compels an employer to reimburse an employee for the cost of marijuana used in response to pain arising from a work-related injury.” 801 et seq.,

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 28, 2022

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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Workers' Compensation

MAY 30, 2022

The “exclusivity doctrine,” permitting a complete recovery of damages against an employer, limits an injured worker’s benefit recovery to the compensation system, barring an intentional tort. An employee may have dual employers but ultimately can only receive a single recovery from only one employer for work-related injuries.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 5, 2022

For more than twenty years I have been speaking about demographic change to workers’ compensation insurers in the hopes of spurring policy changes in advance of an aging workforce and greater numbers of older workers in the workplace. Population projections presented in the 1990s and early 2000s told us what was coming.

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Hppy

AUGUST 30, 2017

As you might guess, all this training/facilitation is best done when the entire cross-functional team is present in a room, all receiving the training/facilitation at the same time. Changes to support cross-functional teamwork do not involve individual teams, but the systems that support them. Compensation systems.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 4, 2021

In the accompanying slides and in some responses, I provide additional references as a starting point for understanding and comparing initial workers’ compensation. All workers’ compensation systems pay the same rate for lost wages…right? Some jurisdictions limit the duration. Each plan should be examined on its own.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JUNE 2, 2024

Other coding systems for nature of injury, industry and occupation are jurisdictionally specific and subject to change over time. Workers’ compensation systems rely on a medical diagnosis of the injury , then determine the " work-relatedness " of that injury before considering the extent and duration of any compensation.

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HR Management Activities

JULY 19, 2020

On the basis of such analyses, plans can be made for shifting employees within the organization, laying off or otherwise cutting back the number of employees, or retraining present employees. Further, the compensation system has to fit with the performance appraisal system, which must fit with HR development decisions, and so on.

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Achievers

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Continuing to the present day, workers have been indoctrinated into the tradition of demonstrating their commitment through the length of time spent at work. Rebuild compensation systems. Rebuild your compensation systems to support this philosophical change.

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HR Digest

MARCH 28, 2022

When it comes to compensation plans for sales professionals, there are certain challenges that you must overcome. Building a perfect sales compensation plan is not easy and requires a lot of effort from sales personnel. Effective steps to create a sales compensation plan. The rate will be lower, and it will reach only 8%.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The employer remains liable for the workers’ compensation and benefits prescribed by the governing workers’ compensation statute. The retention of financial liability presents a risk to the self-insuring entity. Carve-outs generally provide workers’ compensation benefits and dispute resolution under a collective agreement.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Not all components of employer costs for a worker attract a premium but most workers’ compensation system defined which components are considered “reportable” or “assessable” payroll. For the purpose of this discussion, these rating provisions are not critical. What is critical is how “payroll” figures into the process.

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Empuls

JUNE 21, 2024

   Exxon has managed to keep the engagement level high by presenting its employees with exciting rewards, benefits, and a 'pay-per-performance' philosophy. ExxonMobil offers competitive compensation and benefits packages to attract and retain top talent for the long term.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 23, 2020

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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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 11, 2024

We know that Ramon Malca was presented with the award. At some point, Stephen Rosen was presented with the award (in 1991 perhaps). David Parrish was presented the award, seemingly also in 1991 (though that seems unlikely, two in one year). Stephen Rissman was presented the award in 1985. Gerald Rosenthal was also.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 11, 2022

Other state's workers' compensation systems "figured out" how to accept electronic documents as evidence. I recently read an article in which a workers' compensation judge explained a state's decision to eschew video as it presented too many challenges; Florida, on the contrary, switched to video with nary a hitch.

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Florida Workers' Comp

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Mitchell's only recourse if any, should be through the New Mexico workers' compensation system. In the workers' compensation and litigation arena, this is referred to as "exclusive remedy," and it is one of the pillars of workers' comp.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 24, 2022

However, I am a firm believer that there are many perspectives on this world of ours, and a panel is, after all, a panel (if someone wants an hour of your perspective, they will invite you to present or keynote, not as a panel participant). Pierce), an attorney primarily representing employers (Ms. Sighinolfi).

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In the US, the National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation (1972) [available at [link] ] laid bare the disparity then present across US jurisdictions and established recommendations for the minimum standards of what workers’ compensation should provide.

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The Agence National des Fréquences [ANFR] stated that “…Apple must immediately take all measures to prevent the availability on the market of the phones concerned present in the supply chain. Last week, the French government requested that Apple stop selling the iPhone 12 model because of excessive radiation detected during recent tests.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 11, 2019

. · Private and mutual insurance only: Jurisdictions where privately held or mutual insurance companies provide workers’ compensation insurance where there is no exclusive state fund. Mutualized former state funds may be present in the market. There are no jurisdictions with competitive state funds.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Workers’ compensation is designed to provide income replacement and coverage of medical expenses for employees who are injured on the job. State agency administers the system. The responsibility for the administration of a workers’ compensation system usually resides in the hands of a commission or board.

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 3, 2022

While the workers’ compensation system is remedial social legislation crafted over a century ago, it does not provide sufficient economic incentive to make the workplace safer and offer adequate damages to make the worker and his dependents whole from the loss created by an unsafe workplace. The trial court instructed the jury.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

AUGUST 22, 2019

Workers’ compensation insurance has the added feature of being an exclusive remedy in most jurisdictions; employers are protected from legal action for most work-related injuries—a feature not present in most other insurance lines. For 2016, the range in worker benefits per $100 payroll was $0.26 and employer costs ranged from $0.48

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

Finding the worker had established that medical marijuana represented—as to him—reasonable and necessary medical treatment under the New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Act (WCA), the Court also indicated the employer had presented no credible evidence that it might be prosecuted under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA).

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 3, 2023

The Judge concluded, therefore, that the absence of such language in the COVID-19 Job Protection Act or any other legislation left the determination of compensability of COVID-19 as an issue to be determined and assessed on a case-by-case basis through the existing West Virginia workers’ compensation system.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 7, 2020

The adjudicative decision for a workers’ compensation claim will become more complex as the risk differential between work and non-work exposures equalize. Diagnostic tests are generally not considered as medical expenses under a workers’ compensation claim. At present, there is no vaccine against this disease.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 23, 2020

Rapid, accurate and consistent decisions will depend on the degree of agility workers’ compensation systems can achieve on these potentially complex cases and constrained operating environments. A special concern: Mental Injuries Workers’ compensation systems routinely accept psychological impacts as a result of injury.

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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. In evaluated denied claims, compensation hearing officials need to be their gatekeepers of credible evidence to adjudicate COVID claims.

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 27, 2023

But since the original treatment was for a work-related injury, any alleged malpractice exacerbating the original injury would also have been compensable as an aggravation. As such, the employee’s exclusive remedy should be within the compensation system.] Kirson , 362 Md. 140, 763 A.2d 2d 185 (2000).

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 10, 2025

The facts surrounding Hawks death presented the Iowa Supreme Court with a classic opportunity to reconsider a well-established but increasingly problematic doctrine in workers compensation lawthe unusual and rash act doctrine, which had persisted in Iowa jurisprudence since 1922. Conclusion Hawk v. Jim Hawk Chevrolet-Buick, Inc.

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