Industry Insights
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Duff: Reporting to Work During Pandemic as Special Mission | 03/25/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I have great concern that the end of the pandemic will be rife with confusing politics. No sitting president wants a paralyzed economy leading into the election for a second term. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: No Grand Bargain: A Counter-Perspective on 'Portable Benefits' | 03/12/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I was quoted the other day in Bloomberg News on the subject of “portable benefits” — benefits paid to “gig workers” in lieu of “real benefits” because, well, it’s better than nothing. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: Was Safety Advocate Pushed Out of Conference After Criticizing Amazon? | 03/09/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| This story, authored by Eli Rosenberg, ran in Wednesday's Washington Post. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: More Reaction to Regulatory Arbitrage | 02/11/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A recently offered Pennsylvania bill doubling down on the ABC employee-status test for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft has created in me the strong impression that one school of national opinion seems to be coalescing around a presumption that the gig economy writ large is not benign but a...Read More | |||
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Duff: Skeptical Ruminations on Walmart's Mass Workers' Compensation Settlements | 01/24/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I am not implacably opposed to all that is new. Indeed, I think we need a new, New Deal, and I am not so confident to claim that I know exactly what that should look like. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: All the World's a Platform? | 01/21/2020 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| I've written a short paper in advance of the 2020 Workers' Compensation Midwinter Conference panel in which I'll be participating on March 28 in New Orleans. The panel is titled, "Workers' Compensation and the 'Gig' Economy: Challenges Flowing From Temporary Work.&quo...Read More | |||
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Doud: Are Saturdays Considered Working Days for Purposes of UR? | 01/13/2020 | |
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| By: John W. Doud | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A captain with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) sought authority for radiofrequency ablation to treat an accepted injury to his back. The applicant’s first request for treatment was received by Cal Fire’s utilization review company on Monday, M...Read More | |||
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Duff: More Injuries in Amazon's 'Safe America' | 12/12/2019 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| One reason it is hard to bamboozle me on the true state of working America is that before I became a lawyer, and then a law professor, I did 15 years of hard labor in working America. ...Read More | |||
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Durham: Return to Sender; Address Unknown | 09/26/2019 | |
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| By: Robert Durham | |||
| State: TN | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| As a judge, I appreciate the opportunity this blog affords me. It gives me a chance to vent to the world at large (or at least, the tiny part that cares about Tennessee workers’ compensation) about some of my pet peeves. Today’s pet peeve: email addresses. ...Read More | |||
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Duff: How Low Can You Go? | 08/15/2019 | |
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| By: Michael C. Duff | |||
| State: WY | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| My work on a Wyoming workers’ compensation treatise (submitted to the publisher two weeks ago) has emphasized a fairly stark reality: While 90% of Wyoming workers are covered by workers’ compensation only 68% of them work for employers required to provide it. ...Read More | |||
