Industry Insights
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Langham: Pertinent Questions | 11/18/2024 | |
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| By: Judge David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| I get some intriguing emails from time to time. I received one recently in which the inquirer expressed some questions for the good of the community. The writer laid claim to the role of "sounding board" and suggested that dissemination of information would benefit the workers' comp...Read More | |||
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Lehman: Oral Arguments, Conflicting Experts and Significant Reversal | 07/23/2024 | |
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| By: Kaitlynn Lehman | |||
| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| Writing to you “From the Bench,” my name is Kaitlynn Lehman, and I’ve just finished my first year of law school at Belmont University. The Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has taken me under its wing as an intern to show me the ins and outs of the practice of law ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Uniformity in Regulations | 04/25/2024 | |
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| By: Judge David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| On April 11, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed CS/CS/HB 433. That designation, as we have noted previously, has meaning. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Shootings and Compensability | 03/27/2024 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Three shootings. Three examples. An opportunity to discuss the interaction of "arising out of "and the parallel requirement of "course and scope." ...Read More | |||
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Larres: State Supreme Court Denies Review of Our Appellate Win | 03/25/2024 | |
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| By: Louis A. Larres | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The California Supreme Court denied review of a published decision finding that the Salvation Army was not the employer of a man who was ordered to enlist in a residential drug rehabilitation program as part of his probation. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Taking the Complexity Out of Comp | 01/23/2024 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| In "My Favorite Year," Peter O'Toole plays Alan Swann. He is a flawed protagonist, and it presents an entertaining premise. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: The OJCC Today | 12/13/2023 | |
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| By: Judge David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| The 2022-23 Florida OJCC Annual Report is likely the most introspective annual review in the world of workers' compensation adjudication. ...Read More | |||
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Lemos-Crawford: Recent Case Reaffirms WC Act as Sole Remedy | 06/23/2023 | |
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| By: Cortney M. Lemos-Crawford | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Recently, the 5th District Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit for negligence brought by a temp worker against his special employer for a work injury for which he had already been provided benefits through the general employer’s workers’ compensation insurance cove...Read More | |||
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Langham: Fee Schedules Revised | 06/06/2023 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| This post continues the discussion of the impact of CS/CS/ HB487 (2023). The first part, including reminders of the nomenclature and legislative process, is in ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Dr. James McCluskey | 04/19/2023 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| Yet another example of what has recently been too frequent. ...Read More | |||
