Frank Ferreri, M.A., J.D. covers workers' compensation legal issues. He has published books, articles, and other material on multiple areas of employment, insurance, and disability law. Frank received his master's degree from the University of South Florida and juris doctor from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

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You Don't Know AARP (v. EEOC): Why New ADA, GINA Regs are Due

• 01/14/21

Stuart, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – With not much time until the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission changes hands from the Trump to the Biden administrations, new proposed Americans with ...
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EEOC Proposes Wellness Program Regs to Cover Voluntariness, Confidentiality

• 01/13/21

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has struggled for years to develop regulations regarding incentives in wellness programs under the Americans with ...
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Case Lesson: Ex Parte Communications in Workers' Compensation

• 01/12/21

Stuart, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Regular readers of the What Do You Think feature will remember that in Jones v. University of Mississippi Medical Center, No. 2020-WC-00412-COA (Miss. Ct. App. ...
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What Do You Think: Did Fall From Chair Cause Therapist's Injuries?

• 01/11/21

Jackson, MS (WorkersCompensation.com) – When an employee has an injury on the job and later ends up in a car crash, how tough is it for her to connect her pain to the work incident? A Mississippi ...
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WHD: FFCRA Rights Have Ended, but Employers Still Have Options

• 01/08/21

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – When the Families First Coronavirus Response Act went into effect in the spring, among its key provisions were paid sick leave and expanded family medical ...
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Ag Groups Challenge Authority of Calif. COVID-19 Emergency Rule in Lawsuit

• 01/07/21

Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Very little about the COVID-19 pandemic has been business as usual, so when California in early December announced new emergency regulations governing ...
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No Reference to Alleged Injury in ER Records Snaps Jeweler's Case

• 01/06/21

Reporting to the emergency room 11 days after an alleged at-work injury didn’t build a jewelry salesperson’s case for benefits. Instead, the court in Sterling Jewelers and XL Specialty Insurance ...
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What Do You Think: Was Marine Tech Aquaculture Worker or Seaman?

• 01/04/21

Portland, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) – Does a job caring for fish that, from time to time, requires the use of boats make a worker a seaman? Possibly, and, as a Maine court recently detailed, it ...
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N.H. Top Court: Employers Wouldn't 'Significantly Consider' Laborer's Wrist Injury

• 12/30/20

Concord, NH (WorkersCompensation.com) – While a laborer for a lumber company had a wrist injury that made his job difficult, it didn’t mean he had an impairment that was a “hindrance or ...
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