Industry Insights
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Langham: Reweighing Evidence and Appellate Review | 11/09/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Courts hear cases and issue decisions. In appellate parlance, the review may come by appeal or by writ, recently featured in Writ Protection as Opposed to Appeal. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Anna Nicole Smith in Work Comp News | 11/07/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| In 2007, Anna Nicole Smith was found dead in a Florida hotel. She was a high-profile Hollywood figure whose life and death were chronicled in the American tabloid tradition. Her overdose made news, as did virtually every other aspect of her personal life — a tabloid feeding frenzy...Read More | |||
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Langham: Fee Cap in West Virginia | 10/27/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A recent decision of the West Virginia Supreme Court is an interesting contrast to Florida precedent. In April 2016, the Florida Supreme Court concluded in ...Read More | |||
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Luna: A Case for National Standards in State Workers' Compensation | 10/13/2017 | |
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| By: Carlos Luna | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| Would you be surprised to know that the definition of “employee” and “contractor” varies from one state to another? Would you be shocked if I told you that more state workers’ compensation agencies operate without a full-time or part-time medical director o...Read More | |||
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Langham: Proving Reasonable Fees in Florida | 10/06/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| An interesting, but brief, decision came from the Florida 1st District Court of Appeal in July. The court addressed attorney fees in Clancy Co. v. Smith. This is not a workers' co...Read More | |||
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Langham: Can We Make Ourselves Safe(er)? | 09/28/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| There will be disagreements. People are very different from one another. Despite our differences, we are drawn together through socialization, in communities that include towns, schools and workplaces. And, as people are brought together, they have disagreements. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Social Media and Judges | 09/22/2017 | |
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| Source: David Langham | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The ABA Journal recently reported that a Texas judge is subject to some s...Read More | |||
| Lynch: Automation Designed to Keep People Safe Can Produce Opposite Result | 09/19/2017 | ||
| By: Tom Lynch | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Florida Makes a Legislative ADA Change | 09/07/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Florida Legislature revisited the Americans with Disabilities Act in 2017. ...Read More | |||
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Langham: Picking Doctors | 08/30/2017 | |
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| By: David Langham | |||
| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I ran into a lawyer recently at a Florida Worker's Compensation office. Our conversation turned to medical care within the Florida system. He described frustration, an issue of trust and a system where the employer's carrier selects virtually all of the physicians. ...Read More | |||
