Industry Insights
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Duff: Was Safety Advocate Pushed Out of Conference After Criticizing Amazon? | 03/09/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| This story, authored by Eli Rosenberg, ran in Wednesday's Washington Post. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: More Reaction to Regulatory Arbitrage | 02/11/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A recently offered Pennsylvania bill doubling down on the ABC employee-status test for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft has created in me the strong impression that one school of national opinion seems to be coalescing around a presumption that the gig economy writ large is not benign but a...Read More | |||
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Duff: Skeptical Ruminations on Walmart's Mass Workers' Compensation Settlements | 01/24/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I am not implacably opposed to all that is new. Indeed, I think we need a new, New Deal, and I am not so confident to claim that I know exactly what that should look like. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: All the World's a Platform? | 01/21/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I've written a short paper in advance of the 2020 Workers' Compensation Midwinter Conference panel in which I'll be participating on March 28 in New Orleans. The panel is titled, "Workers' Compensation and the 'Gig' Economy: Challenges Flowing From Temporary Work.&quo...Read More | |||
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Doud: Are Saturdays Considered Working Days for Purposes of UR? | 01/13/2020 | |
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| By: John W. Doud | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A captain with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) sought authority for radiofrequency ablation to treat an accepted injury to his back. The applicant’s first request for treatment was received by Cal Fire’s utilization review company on Monday, M...Read More | |||
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Duff: More Injuries in Amazon's 'Safe America' | 12/12/2019 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| One reason it is hard to bamboozle me on the true state of working America is that before I became a lawyer, and then a law professor, I did 15 years of hard labor in working America. ...Read More | |||
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Durham: Return to Sender; Address Unknown | 09/26/2019 | |
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| By: Robert Durham | |||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As a judge, I appreciate the opportunity this blog affords me. It gives me a chance to vent to the world at large (or at least, the tiny part that cares about Tennessee workers’ compensation) about some of my pet peeves. Today’s pet peeve: email addresses. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: How Low Can You Go? | 08/15/2019 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: WY | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| My work on a Wyoming workers’ compensation treatise (submitted to the publisher two weeks ago) has emphasized a fairly stark reality: While 90% of Wyoming workers are covered by workers’ compensation only 68% of them work for employers required to provide it. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Immigration Status Disclosure on Workers' Compensation Applications | 06/10/2019 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I’m back and mostly recovered from a family vacation in Edinburgh, Scotland. While walking through the cemetery where Adam Smith was interred, my family was surprised to see homeless persons encamped there. ...Read More | |||
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Donovan: What Happens When a Worker Is Injured During a Break? | 06/06/2019 | |
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| By: Amy Donovan | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In December of 2016, the California Supreme Court decided the case of Augustus v. ABM Security Services Inc. The plaintiffs in the case wer...Read More | |||
