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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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Mandatory Minimums

Florida Workers' Comp

Similarly, the Florida workers' compensation system has experienced various efforts over the last century to limit or define attorney's fees, and to focus judicial discretion. Either measure of discretion may allow for outcomes that are seen by the public as unacceptable, a person receiving too light or too stringent a sentence.

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Awards and Memories

Florida Workers' Comp

Myers, FL) 2009 Stewart Colling (Orlando, FL) 2010 Richard Sicking (Miami, FL) 2011 Jacob Schickel (Jacksonville, FL) 2012 Herbert Langston (Orlando, FL) 2013 Ramon Malca (Miami, FL) 2014 Richard Thompson (Sarasota, FL) 2015 Richard Chait (Miami, FL) 2016 Thomas Conroy (Hollywood, FL/Las Vegas) 2017 Dawn Traverso (Miami, FL) 2018 Hon.

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EPA Proposes to Ban Ongoing Uses of Asbestos

Workers' Compensation

The EPA has proposed its first-ever risk management rule under the 2016 Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act. The workers’ compensation system has been plagued by an epidemic of industrial illness, including asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma, flowing from exposure to asbestos fiber in the workplace.

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

Workers' Compensation

OSC’s 2020 audit found that six claimants collectively filed 266 claims between 1978 and 2016. As of now, the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse in New Jersey’s workers’ compensation system remains unacceptably high.” In 23 percent of those claims surveyed, no follow-up action, such as safety officer interviews, was taken.

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Is workers’ compensation spending on healthcare significant? Would a "single-payer" system make a difference?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Regardless of the workers’ compensation insurance arrangement (private insurer, exclusive public state or provincial workers’ compensation board) the healthcare expenditures by workers’ compensation systems are relatively small compared to the total national spending on healthcare. In my view, this would be a mistake.

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

The Workcomp Writer

In 2016, the employer requested review of Sheppard’s ongoing health care treatment and service for medications prescribed by Dr. Eva Dickinson. Grady was also a certified provider under the Delaware Workers’ Compensation system. Grady disagreed with Brokaw’s assessment that Sheppard was uncooperative.