Judge Says Computers, Training Fueling Delays

The Office of Judges of Compensation Claims (OJCC) will launch a series of training sessions in January to speed the closing of cases -- a problem Deputy Chief Judge David Langham blames on the antiquated computers he found when he joined the court. Langham was appointed deputy chief judge last spring, after becoming a Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) in October 2001. He authored the agency's annual report this month and said, when he joined the bench in Pensacola five years ago, he found an 8-year-old computer system using a nine-year-old operating system. Within that, he found commer...