Industry Insights
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Langham: Never Give Up, Never Surrender | 04/18/2025 | |
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| By: Judge David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| There is a potential for delay and redundancy in workers' compensation litigation. Periodically, there are litigants who are very reluctant to stop litigating. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Notice of Unavailability | 04/01/2025 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| The cascade of notices of unavailability persists. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: DOGE 2025 | 03/24/2025 | |
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| By: Judge David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| I recently had a chance to review how things are going with the Florida Office of Judges of Compensation Claims. There is a lot of interest in government efficiency. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: A Nose for Weird News | 01/24/2025 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| The world of workplace safety saw an odd occurrence in Indonesia. ...Read More | |||
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Lalancette: Jurisdiction Under the LHWCA | 12/18/2024 | |
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| By: Chelsea M. Lalancette | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act is a federal law that provides benefits, medical care and vocational rehabilitation services to employees who suffer injuries or illnesses while working on or near navigable waters in the United States or in adjoining areas customarily...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
