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The push to create a single-payer healthcare system in California is dead for this year. The bill to create single-payer, AB 1400 (Kalra) was headed to a California Assembly vote. But Assemblyman Ash Kalra pulled the […]

Monday, we wrote about a proposed bill in Utah that would allow firefighters combatting fires in states other than their own to collect workers’ compensation benefits if they were injured on the job. Legislators there […]

Are you an essential business, requiring close proximity operations without the luxury of remote work? If so, this is for you!   The pandemic has forever changed employer responsibility and liability for maintaining a safe and […]

In March 2022, the American Bar Association Trial and Insurance Practice (TIPS) section is bringing back its mid-year meeting. This annual tradition has come to have special meaning for the workers' compensation attorney community because of […]

As many may recall, last Fall the author released a detailed report entitled Follow the New Money Trail: The Rise of Third-Party Litigation Funding. This prior report examined multiple TPLF issues including, TPLF background and origins, […]

The NJ Appellate Division ruled that the members of a Limited Liability Corporation had an affirmative responsibility to elect workers' compensation coverage. Since the corporation failed to do so, liability cannot be shifted to the […]

Welcome back to the last of a three-part series on 2021’s appellate decisions. As the title implies, this article covers the remainder of the Board opinions from last year on many different issues. You are […]

A workers’ compensation bill in Utah has generated quite the unexpected controversy. HB 16, which has cleared the Utah house and is now apparently sailing through the Senate, is intended to allow Utah firefighters to be […]