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Issue Commentary: NC Decision Shows Difficult Balancing Required for Lump-Sum Requests

The Workcomp Writer

97-44), the state’s Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by the North Carolina Industrial Commission denying an injured employee’s petition to receive a lump-sum payment related to her award of permanent and total disability (PTD) [ Blackwell v. The Commission had afforded little weight, therefore, to the two medical experts’ testimony.

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A New Job?

Florida Workers' Comp

There was the judge who restrained a lawyer, Judge Handcuffs Attorney (August 2016). There is the more pedestrian, but always present risk of untoward communication, Judge Reprimanded for Ex Parte Communication (September 2016). He allegedly told the defendant "I hope you are haunted by the vision of you stabbing him.

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Perils and Promise: What Machines and Millennials are Doing to HR (Part 2)

Achievers

In 2016, I wrote a paper for Frost and Sullivan called “ The Coming Age of Sentient Tools.” As a futurist he works with organizations to develop an actionable 10 -15 year vision and what it will feel like to live in the future. He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. About the Author.

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How the 21st Century office was born in post war Europe

Workplace Insight

There was a curious addition to a 2016 report on the Top 10 Technologies Driving the Digital Workplace from tech researchers Gartner. Even so, the allure of command and control management structures and their desire for linearity meant his vision and that of the developers of Bürolandschaft was overwhelmed by the mainstream.

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Issue Commentary: Direct and Natural Consequence Rule

The Workcomp Writer

A deputy commissioner ordered the employer to pay for the treatment of the employee’s heart condition, but the commission reversed. The appellate court agreed with the commission, finding that Va. State (In re Jensen) , 2016 WY 87, 378 P.3d Industrial Acc. Comm’n , 176 Cal. 2d 10, 1 Cal. In a Wyoming case, Claim of Jensen v.

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Issue Commentary: Compensability of Injuries Sustained as a Result of Inoculations

The Workcomp Writer

2016-Ohio-8304, 2016 Ohio App. She had an adverse reaction to the medication, resulting in blurred vision and partial paralysis of her left side. Walgreen Co. LEXIS 5147]. When the claimant, a nurse’s aide, tested positive, the hospital required her to receive treatments for the disease as a condition for continued employment.

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Perils and Promise: What Machines and Millennials are Doing to HR (Part 3)

Achievers

As a futurist he works with organizations to develop an actionable 10 -15 year vision and what it will feel like to live in the future. He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. In 2016 Samuel Goldwyn released “Vintage Tomorrows” a documentary based upon Johnson’s book of the same name. .