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.
The timeliness of decisions is a persistent discussion in the realm of litigation generally, and workers' compensation is not an exception. In a broader sense, the recently discussed Workgroup Report on ...
Read More WorkersCompensation.com recently reported disturbing numbers for "unintentional overdoses from nonmedical use of drugs." There are a a large volume of such deaths in America generally, more on that ...
Read More Last fall I wrote about the amazing transition of the annual Zehmer Moot Court competition. This is usually held at the annual workers' compensation conference each August, but 2021 was delayed. ...
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One of the great challenges of COVID-19 has been our inability to detect its presence prior to the appearance of symptoms. Unfortunately, it appears we all have the ability to carry and spread SARS-CoV-2 ...
Read More It has been a tough 2022 (I am cognizant that we are less than 10 days in). Yesterday (01.08.22) brought unwelcome news, a phone call in the mid-afternoon. Calls like this are surreal, and I often struggle ...
Read More You probably know someone who is struggling. The world in which we live is filled with potential challenges and stressors. They may be professional, personal, or otherwise. They may give rise to symptoms or ...
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In December, the Florida Bar News published an interesting expose of a proposal to make "sweeping changes" to the "civil trial system." The article initially escaped my attention in the digital ...
Read More There is a constant in the universe, and it is change. Hericlitus said if more eloquently: “Change is the only constant in life.” We have seen this in the world of business, and 2022 ...
Read More Inflation is hopping as we end 2021. U.S. News reported recently that From Cars to Gasoline, Surging Prices Match a 13-Year High. That story blames some increases upon "tangled global supply ...
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