David Langham is the Deputy Chief Judge of Compensation Claims for the Florida Office of Judges of Compensation Claims at the Division of Administrative Hearings. He has been involved in workers’ compensation for over 25 years as an attorney, an adjudicator, and administrator. He has delivered hundreds of professional lectures, published numerous articles on workers’ compensation in a variety of publications, and is a frequent blogger on Florida Workers’ Compensation Adjudication. David is a founding director of the National Association of Workers’ Compensation Judiciary and the Professional Mediation Institute, and is involved in the Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators (SAWCA) and the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC). He is a vocal advocate of leveraging technology and modernizing the dispute resolution processes of workers’ compensation.

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Hope for no Breakthrough

• 05/04/21

I have been enthusiastic about our collective recovery from the challenges of SARS-CoV-2 avoidance. See The Future's so Bright (February 2021); Vaccination Implications (February ...
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Survey 2021

• 05/03/21

I recently read an interesting blog post by Bob Wilson. When I saw the title "What if Workers' Comp Surveyed Like McDonald’s?" I heard Carly Simon in my head: "You probably think this (blog) is about ...
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Is there Repair?

• 04/30/21

One might wonder at the mechanics of adapting to a pandemic. A recent article I read postulated that this is "the worst pandemic that most anyone living has experienced." Of course, the impact has been ...
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Complexity Analysis

• 04/28/21

Florida workers' compensation has made a shift to "objective medical evidence." Section 440.09, for example, uses "objective relevant medical findings" three times.  It defines  "'objective ...
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Judicial Timekeeping

• 04/27/21

Seemingly in every exposition, we have become accustomed to the overarching disclaimer of innocence. The U.S. attorney regularly precedes listings of charges with something like: "The charging documents are ...
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We're Really Back!

• 04/20/21

On October 6, 2020, I attended my first in-person workers' compensation seminar in nine months. At the time, I blogged "we're back" and then admitted that was an overstatement but concluded we were ...
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GPS Surveillance Evidence

• 04/15/21

A 2020 decision by the Florida First District Court reminds us of various realities in our modern world. Bailey v. State of Florida, No. 1D18-4514, 45 Fla. L. Weekly D2559 (Fla. 1st DCA 2020). The ...
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Statutory Interpretation in Colorado

• 04/13/21

The Colorado Court of Appeals rendered an interesting decision in March 2020: Kerry Fisher, v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of the State of Colorado and State of Colorado Department of ...
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The Time has Come, the Time is Now

• 04/12/21

The title of this post is a quote from "Marvin K. Money will you Please go Now," by Theodor Geisel (also known as Dr. Seuss).    The protagonist in Groundhog Day (1993), Phil ...
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