Industry Insights
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Torrey: Compensating Injury and Disease Caused by the 'Sedentary Workplace' | 11/27/2018 | |
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| Source: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In a new article, published in the Lewis & Clark Law Review, the authors assert that employers should be liable for workers’ compensation when workers, because of their sedentary duties,...Read More | |||
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Torrey: Gig Workforce Members Via Analogy to Exotic Dancers | 09/24/2018 | |
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| Source: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: SC | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In a new article, the author, a law student, tries to predict how South Carolina courts would rule when a platform intermediary worker alleges, in some employment law context (like workers’ compensation), that he or she is an employee. ...Read More | |||
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Torrey: Gig Workforce: An International View, a Pennsylvania View | 07/30/2018 | |
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| Source: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Oxford University's Jeremias Prassl has published what seems to be the first book by a law professor analyzing the gig economy and its relationship to international precepts of modern employment law. ...Read More | |||
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Thomas: The Pike Decision | 07/18/2018 | |
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| Source: Joanne M. Thomas | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I was less than hopeful that Pike would become a defining decision on the crucial issue of entitlement to temporary total disability five years subsequent to the date of injury. ...Read More | |||
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Torrey: New Article Describes VA Disability Claims Procedure, Advocates for Change | 07/06/2018 | |
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| Source: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In a new, well-crafted article, a recent law graduate and former naval officer outlines in brief the law and procedure of veterans’ disability benefits claims, and sets forth a criti...Read More | |||
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Torrey: Identifying the Source of Recent Constitutional Challenges | 06/12/2018 | |
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| By: David B. Torrey | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In a new article, the articulate chair of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission discusses the unprecedented number of constitutional challenges we have seen the last two years or so surrounding state worker...Read More | |||
| Teague Campbell: Change to Framework in Supreme Court's Landmark Wilkes Decision | 06/22/2017 | ||
| By: Teague Campbell | |||
| State: NC | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In addition to creating a medical presumption for accepted claims, the North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision in Wilkes v. City of Greenville has significantly altered the lan...Read More | |||
| Teague Campbell: Attendant Care Updates | 03/02/2017 | ||
| By: Teague Campbell | |||
| State: NC | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Thompson v. International Paper Co. On Feb. 23, 2012, Darrell Thompson was involved in an at-work accident and suffered severe burns that covered more than 23% of his body, mostly to his left shoulder and arm. Following the injury, Thompson underwent three major...Read More | |||
| The Debate of Mental-Mental and PTSD | 01/20/2017 | ||
| By: David Langham | |||
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| There is a debate raging across America related to mental health. There are those who see disparity and injustice in the treatment of psychological illness in workers' compensation. It appears that state's treatment of mental illness falls into some reasonably defined categories. ...Read More | |||
| Teague Campbell: The Last Medical Payment Is the Last Medical Payment | 12/20/2016 | ||
| State: NC | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Kelly Lewis worked as a bus operator for Transit Management of Charlotte (“Charlotte Transit”). He suffered an admittedly compensable back injury on June 15, 2009, when the bus he was driving was rear-ended. A Form 25R was completed wherein Lewis was assigned a 0% permanent ...Read More | |||
