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Snyder: Nudging Parties to Choose Settlement 08/14/2024
By: Teddy Snyder
State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0
At every stage in conflict resolution, parties face an array of choices, but they don’t always recognize them. ...Read More
 
 

Salem: Minimum Comp Rate Applies, Even Against Social Security Offset 08/01/2024
By: Jane Salem
State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0
Last week, the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Appeals Board answered an issue of first impression about statutory construction and in particular whether an employer is entitled to the Social Security offset in Section 50-6-207(4)(A)(i) when applying it lowers an employee’s compens...Read More
 
 

Salem: Panel Upholds Key Sections of Comp Law 07/31/2024
By: Jane Salem
State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0
The Tennessee Supreme Court released a panel decision on July 19 finding two significant provisions of the Reform Act constitutional, in Worrell v. Obion County School Distri...Read More
 
 

Snyder: Best Practices for Taking Notes During Mediation 07/10/2024
By: Teddy Snyder
State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0
Of course, you want to take notes during mediation. You want to record new information as it emerges. You need to keep close track of demands and offers. But participants’ note-taking could take away from the value of this mediation. ...Read More
 
 

Snyder: Tolstoy on Mediated Settlements 06/12/2024
By: Teddy Snyder
State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0
All successful mediations are alike. Each unsuccessful mediation is unsuccessful in its own way. ...Read More
 
 

Switzer: Smoothing Those Bumps in the Road 06/10/2024
By: Judge Kenneth M. Switzer
State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0
In March, I authored an article entitled “Important Change Coming Soon.” The gist of the article was to report that beginning on March 25, all mediations would end in the issuance of a...Read More
 
 

Snyder: The Perfect Offer 05/15/2024
By: Teddy Snyder
State: CA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0
You know the case should settle. Why won’t the other side agree to your offer? ...Read More
 
 

Snyder: Public Benefit Rules Have Changed, but It Might Not Make a Difference 04/12/2024
By: Teddy Snyder
State: CA | Segment: Top | 0
In July 2022, I alerted readers about a new Medi-Cal eligibility law, California Welfare and Institutions Code §14005.62, which removed the asset limit test. As of Jan. 1, 2024, there is no asset limit. ...Read More
 
 

Snyder: Litigation Guidelines Should Define Four Settlement Triggers 04/10/2024
By: Teddy Snyder
State: CA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0
Civil litigators tend to observe certain guideposts as mediation triggers, such as the closing of discovery, setting of a trial date, or an order from the court to use mediation.  Because about 95% of civil cases settle before trial, mediation is the norm for almost every area of civil ...Read More
 
 

Switzer: Important Change Coming Soon 03/21/2024
By: Chief Judge Kenneth M. Switzer
State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0
Beginning Monday, all mediations in cases pending before the Court of Workers’ Compensation Claims will conclude with the issuance of a dispute certification notice. ...Read More
 
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