Industry Insights
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Duff: Some Quick Thoughts on Presumptions | 08/13/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I am very clear on why certain people do not “understand” COVID-19 workers’ compensation causation presumptions. There is that very old (gendered) Upton Sinclair saw: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding i...Read More | |||
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Duff: Report Recommends OSHA Private Right of Action | 08/03/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Departing sharply from notions of “liability immunity,” member scholars at the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) — including yours truly — have offered in a new report ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Are Liability Immunity and Personal Security Irreconcilable Ideas? | 07/23/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I wrote in general terms back on June 10 about the “liability shield” that will probably be front and center in the debate over the next COVID-19 relief bill. Everyone is pretty clear about the immunity provisions it will contain. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: State Supreme Court Rules Air Ambulance Rates Regulable | 07/02/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Contrary to all prior federal circuit courts that have decided the question, the Texas Supreme Court, in Texas Mut. Ins. Co. v. PHI Air Medical LLC, has decided that the Airline Deregulation...Read More | |||
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Duff: Workers Win Preliminary Injunction on Public Nuisance Theory | 06/25/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| All the stars aligned for a worker-filed a public nuisance suit — at least, chapter one of the suit — the most important of which were probably that the case was b...Read More | |||
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Duff: No Wonder They Want Immunity | 06/16/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As I read through Michael Grabell, Claire Perlman and Bernice Yeung’s ...Read More | |||
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Duff: I Hate to Burst Your Bubble | 05/28/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The new Illinois workers' compensation COVID-19 presumption is actually three presumptions. The full text of the statutory language is ...Read More | |||
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DuVall: Battling Fraud During a Pandemic | 05/18/2020 | |
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| By: A.D. DuVall | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As my 10-year-old kicked off week nine of distance learning from home and I entered my fourth month as deputy executive director of the coalition, I've had a prime opportunity to reflect on the extraordinary circumstances the world is confronting at the moment. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Desperate Litigation in the Meatpacking Industry | 05/12/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I have had a couple of inquiries in the last few days about lawsuits filed by employees against meatpacking plants. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Reopening the Economy at Any Cost? | 04/27/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| One of my favorite commentators, Nassim Taleb, thinks the Covid-19 experience is a white swan, not a black one. (He predicted the event — or one a lot like it — back in 2007. And I am under the impression that it has always been just a matter of time). ...Read More | |||
