By Bill ZachrySafewayOne part of the workers' compensation system that gets little attention, and yet is the biggest cause of the workers compensation paper blizzard, is the benefit-notice process.As it currently is designed and implemented, the benefit notice proce...Read More
By Jeremiah K. JarminJarmin & FainI recently came across the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association’s Daily Legislative Watch and learned something quite disturbing. This legislative update contained a reference to SB 7, a bill proposed by the Insurance and Labor Committee tha...Read More
By Eugene KeefeKeefe Campbell & AssociatesThe entire Illinois workers’ comp community is abuzz with reform efforts drifting here and there, like snowflakes in lake-effect snow. It will be hard to predict where it may all fall or if anything may actually happen....Read More
By Julie FergusonLynch Ryan & AssociatesOn Nov. 11, our nation honored its veterans for service rendered to the country. Although belatedly, we join in offering thanks.One could make the case that our nation's gratitude should be a 365-day-a-year tribute rather ...Read More
By Jon CoppelmanLynch Ryan & AssociatesToday we examine one of the great conundrums in workers comp claims: the old injury that may or may not be defined as a new injury.In 2006 David Poulton worked for Martec Industries in Rochester, New York, as a laborer. Poulton...Read More
By Jon CoppelmanLynch Ryan & AssociatesAs a service for Insider readers who do not follow the Flathead Beacon, we bring you the western Montana saga of Brock Hopkins, who either was or was not an employee of Great Bear Adventures when he had a great bear adventure of his own, m...Read More
By Julius YoungBoxer & GersonThe continuing epidemic of employer workers' comp fraud continues.....But now it has infected your local bagel provider? Mon dieu! as Inspector Clouseau would have said.A purveyor of bagels in upscale San Francisco Bay Ar...Read More
By Daren Van VlerahOhio’s Third District Court of Appeals recently held that the family of an injured worker whose accidental death was caused by a lethal concentration of OxyContin is not entitled to death benefits under Ohio Workers’ Compensation Act.In Parker v...Read More
By Christian A. Davis and Wendy S. Smith As a practicing defense counsel in the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation bar, one might ask these days how can we build up a strong, stallworthy defense in a world where many of the defense tactics available are constantly under scruti...Read More
By Mullen & FilippiThe Benson Decision. In a decision that is cause for celebration for the workers' compensation defense community, on Feb. 10, 2009, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed the the WCAB en banc ruling in Benson v. WCAB. Basing its decision ...Read More
