Industry Insights
| Florida Case Law Update | 04/24/2015 | ||
| By: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| NEW! Coleman v. American Airlines, 1D14-2232, (04/22/2015): The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled that a worker who lost her comp claim was liable for her employer's reasonable defense costs, but not for the extra deposition transcript costs. NEW! Limith v. Lenox on the Lake, 1D14-37...Read More | |||
| Florida Case Law Update | 03/26/2015 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| NEW! Perez v. Southeastern Freight Lines, 1D14-3821, (03/20/2015): A Florida appellate court overturned a judge's decision to deny temporary total disability to a worker whose employer had stipulated to the compensability of his injury, finding the judge had applied the wrong standard of proo...Read More | |||
| Florida Case Law Update | 03/03/2015 | ||
| Source: WCC Staff | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| NEW! American Airlines v. Hennessey, 1D14-3604, (02/23/2015): The 1st District Court of Appeal overturned an award of payment to an injured worker for the attendant care services he received from his wife. NEW! Roof Painting by Hartzell v. Hernandez, 1D14-0112, (02/16/2015): The 1st Distr...Read More | |||
| February 2015 Case Law Update | 02/05/2015 | ||
| By: Michael W. Sullivan | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| JURISDICTION AND SUBROGATION In White v. WCAB, 2014 Cal. Wrk. Comp. LEXIS 183 (writ denied), the WCAB affirmed a WCJ's decision that an employer was 5% negligent in causing the applicant's injuries, that 95% percent of the negligence was attributed to a third party and that, there...Read More | |||
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Fresh Thinking about Work Fatalities | 02/02/2015 | |
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| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Traumatic work-related deaths are a rare tragedy in America. As measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4,405 workers died on the job in 2013. We are far from the killing fields of a century ago, when Pittsburgh alone accounted for over 400 work fatalities a year. Yet work deaths have...Read More | |||
| Florida Case Law Update | 01/21/2015 | ||
| Source: WCC Staff | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| NEW! Hector v. State of Florida...Read More | |||
| Florida Case Law Update | 11/20/2014 | ||
| By: WCC Staff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| NEW! Lane v. Workforce Business Services, 1D14-959, (11/12/14): The Florida 1st District Court of Appeal ruled that sanctions allowed in civil courts for the deliberate maintenance of a baseles...Read More | |||
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Focus on Opioids | 10/30/2014 | |
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| By: Julius Young | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has yet to unveil opioid guidelines, though a draft was circulated for public comment in April. The DWC isn’t the only California agency working on the topic. ...Read More | |||
| Florida Case Law Update | 10/23/2014 | ||
| Source: WCC Staff | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| NEW! Panzer Law v. Palm Beach County School District, 1D14-0908, (10/13/2014): The failure of an employer and its insurance carrier to seek dismissal of a petition for benefits on the basis tha...Read More | |||
| Five Ways to Improve Work Safety for our Adolescents | 09/29/2014 | ||
| By: Peter Rousmaniere (Featured Columnist) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Editor's note: This is Part 2 of a series on adolescent work injuries. Twenty million kids below the age of 18 are at work, almost all part-time, mostly in fairly safe employment. Federal and state laws bar them from the more hazardous jobs (such as mining) and tasks (such as...Read More | |||
