Judge David Langham

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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Criticism of Enforcing Law

• 08/21/17

The nation's public radio, NPR, and ProPublica recently published a story critical of the application of Section 440.105 Fla. Stat. The almost 6,000 word ...
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A Recent 'Real' Fraud Discussion

• 08/21/17

Workers' compensation is a topic that evokes strong emotions sometimes. Back in June, Joe Paduda penned a short piece on fraud that generated a fair amount of ...
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Communication and Activation

• 08/15/17

Medical News Today (MNT) recently published Did I understand you correctly, doc?, an expose of communication between patients and physicians. It is a worthy subject ...
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The Successor Judge

• 08/14/17

A 1989 Florida divorce case provides some guidance for lawyers who find their case assigned to a "successor judge." There, the former husband was challenging a final ...
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Surgery Could be B B B B B Bad

• 08/10/17

A Texas story in 2017 documented a tragic situation in which Dr. Christopher Duntsch performed some surgeries. Several patients did not enjoy the outcomes they sought, ...
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Florida Legislature Mandates Patient Convenience

• 08/08/17

Most Floridians will not have heard of Senate Bill 800 (SB800), which passed last spring (2017). But it is an important bill and potentially provides us important ...
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Eliminating All Bias

• 08/07/17

The Bond films are debated. Some see them as classics, others as celebrating a misogynistic attitude that is at best dismissive of women and some feel degrading and ...
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Judicial Transparency Advocated

• 08/03/17

WorkCompCentral reported recently that the Massachusetts Advisory Councils Want Slow-Acting Judges Disciplined or Removed. The Advisory Council issued a report ...
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Follow Orders, or Seek Relief

• 08/01/17

The Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal recently rendered an interesting decision in Rosenwater v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., 4D16-4015 [June 21, 2017]. The ...
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