Workers' Compensation Perspectives

APRIL 29, 2024

See SunLife, Changing Times: evolving the approach to disability management, 2021 at Changing times: evolving the approach to disability management | Sun Life ). So, these data may not fully represent what is happening in either country’s workers’ compensation system. At best, these data likely reflect broader trends.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 5, 2022

average) age 65 to 69 are employed (Jan-Apr 2022) A recent Australian study reflects similar increases in participation among older workers (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Older Australians, accessed 10 May 2022): Older Australians (aged 65 and over) had a workforce participation rate of 15% (19% for men, 11% for women).

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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? Is there a minimum compensation amount for TTD? California) to seven days (e.g.,

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Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Faced with intense pushback, the SEC did not implement its 2015 proposed rule, although the SEC reopened comment periods in October 2021 and, as noted above, most recently in June 2022. Given the delay in the SEC’s implementation of final rules, public companies have taken various approaches.

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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. Before the Omicron variant surge in late 2021, it was estimated that over 2 million people in the United States suffered from PASC. Thomson-Reuters 2021).

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“Carve-outs” as a Form of Self-insurance: Labor-management agreements meeting specific requirements set and approved by the state, may seek to state approval to exclude themselves from standard workers’ compensation insurance mandates, provided they offer benefits equal to or better than those mandated by the workers’ compensation system.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This annual tradition has come to have special meaning for the workers' compensation attorney community because of the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers (CWCL). SARS-CoV-2 trifled with that in 2020 and 2021, but it returns in 2022 in the French Quarter of New Orleans. TIPS was crucial to the formation of the CWCL.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 24, 2022

The panel at the United States Department of Labor was focused specifically on half of the Grand Bargain, asking " Is the Workers’ Compensation System Serving Injured Workers? ” Law professor Emily Spieler , Northwestern University School of Law was included, as was workers compensation attorney Alan Pierce.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 3, 2023

The Judge added that on January 19, 2021, the West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner issued Insurance Bulletin No. 21-01 which directed, in part, that workers’ compensation claims for COVID-19 should not be summarily refused, denied, or rejected outright due to the nature of the injury alone without proper investigation.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 15, 2022

A major disrupters in the workers’ compensation system is hurricanes. Workers’ compensation benefits are available to injured workers due to the consequences of hurricanes, including injuries from flooding and wind. Now is the time to prepare for such events. The 2022 Season is still predicted to be an abnormally high season.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MARCH 15, 2022

For more on Federalization, see A Move Towards Federal Influence (June 2017), and Is Federalization in the Wind (October 2021). Some would also find irony in the "wasteful litigation" perception of tort that drove us to workers' compensation. The Commission Report is available on John Burton's website.

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Florida Workers' Comp

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

See The 5 Monkey Parable (February 2021). The 2021-22 report is being sent this week to the Florida Legislature and will soon be posted on the OJCC website. The average value of each settlement fluctuated over the last 14 years between $4,847 in 2009-10 and $12,342 in 2021-22. And, without question, none of us knows why.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JULY 11, 2022

Last year, I noted that the Metaverse is Coming (October 2021). There was a follow up in November when one of the social media companies actually changed its name to reflect its belief in the coming of a new interactive computer world of the future: The Metaverse (November 2021). We are told that there will be greater convenience.

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 12, 2024

97-2 (19) (2021) (defining “medical compensation”). The appellate court disagreed, indicating the language cited by Plaintiff was the Act’s definition of the purpose of medical compensation—which was just one purpose of the Act. Within the workers’ compensation context, the issues are more complex and nuanced.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Stakeholders Face Challenges The numerous stakeholders of the workers’ compensation system have been repeatedly faced with episodes of increased infectious disease, and little has been done to take the necessary precautions against the hazardous consequences. Reinfection is at least 2.5 times increased compared to prior variants.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

3d 825 (2021)]. M&K Construction , 2021 N.J. Aurora , 2021 N.Y. 2021), cert. 2021), cert. The majority of the Court also held that the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), 21 U.S.C.S. §§ 801-971, preempts an order made pursuant to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Law, Minn. New Jersey. In Hager v.

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Workers' Compensation

AUGUST 8, 2023

The limited resources of state-based workers’ compensation systems are too fiscally restrictive to embrace the long-term treatment and disability benefits that will emerge from successive infectious disease outbreaks. In October 2021, the World Health Organization recognized Long-COVID as a disabling medical condition.

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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. 409 (2021). Bessemer Processing Co.,

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In either, we have a population of workers that are not being covered by the workers' compensation system and its protections. The "Grand Bargain" in 2021, What Would David Say? It also includes famous risk manager and workers' compensation leader Bill Zachry, and community commentator and leader Bob Wilson.

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