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21 Financial Events and Trends During 2021

Money Talk

Fraud- Top fraud categories reported by the Federal Trade Commission in a 2021 report were imposter, online, and internet services scams. Average monthly payments in 2021 were $563, $397, and $450, respectively, for new, used, and leased vehicles.

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The Florida OJCC Today

Florida Workers' Comp

For half that time, until the IRC was abolished in 1979 (44 years), the OJCC was within the quasi-regulatory/appellate structure of the two Commissions. From 1979 to 2001 (22 years), it was within the Department of Labor, though there were changes in that department’s status.

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Preparing for the Next Epidemic of Occupational Disease

Workers' Compensation

Planning and Commissioning – Standard 241 provides assessment and planning requirements culminating in developing a building readiness plan, a concept carried over from the work of the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force. It also describes procedures for commissioning systems to determine their installed performance. All rights reserved.

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Illinois Employee’s Termination Not Retaliatory Where it Occurred Six Weeks Prior to His Filing Comp Claim

The Workcomp Writer

Eckerty began working for EIF in 2001, and aside from a period during 2004-05, when he managed a golf course, he remained employed there in various roles until July 2018. He injured his back in 2001, a trash compactor fell on his forearm in 2002, and he accidentally splashed bleach on himself in 2010.

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Ohio Court Affirms Finding that Furnace Worker’s COVID-19 Was Not Compensable

The Workcomp Writer

The Industrial Commission declined to hear the employer’s appeal and the employer filed an administrative appeal in the Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas. 01CA36, 2001 Ohio App. 20, 2001), the appellate court stressed: It is not contemplated by the law makers that the law should cover health insurance. Not Health Insurance.

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Workgroup Report on Civil Cases

Florida Workers' Comp

There were various legislative adjustments to the impacts of the "wage loss" experiment of 1979, and other responses to the "recommendations" of the National Commission in 1974; see A 21st Century National Commission (April 2013); Where do We Go From Here (March 2016). These were "presumed to be appropriate for expedited resolution."

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Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Occupational Exposure to Cellphone Radiation

Workers' Compensation

Several studies have indicated evidence that the assumptions underlying the FCC and the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection [ICNIRP] concerning exposure limits are invalid and are harmful to humans. International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF). 350 N.J.Super.