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.
How do human memories work? a psychologist provides insight into "metacognitive illusions," and how our "perceptions and memories" work. There is a contention that people are unduly confident in their ...
Read More The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals recently rendered Redmond Legal Group v. Chatman and Mitra, NO. 14-17-00835-CV (August 27, 2019).It is not a workers' compensation case, but involves a dispute ...
Read More Some Canadian litigation recently came to light in the news. The Canadian Supreme Court has heard the petition of Bela Kosoian. Global News reports that She was in a "Metro station in the Montreal suburb of ...
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An opioid bill quietly made its way through the Florida legislature this year. House Bill 451 (HB451) passed April 30, 2019 and was signed by the Governor June 24. It adds a new subsection to section 456.44, ...
Read More On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 I began to worry about Tropical Storm Dorian. That was nine days ago and Dorian was projected to make landfall somewhere around Melbourne, Florida. It was projected to arrive in ...
Read More In the 1989 Cousins, there is an exchange between Vince (Lloyd Bridges) and Mitch (Keith Coogan):
Vince: Can you keep a secret?
Mitch: Yeah.
Vince: So can I.
The best way to ...
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The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) recently published a story Why we Lie About Being Retired, an eye-catching lead. The author describes the great efforts on the Internet to portray images of retired ...
Read More The Florida First District Court of Appeal recently rendered Department of Health v. Gainesville Woman Care, LLC., No. 1D18-623 [August 1, 2019]. The case is not about workers' compensation, but about a ...
Read More In early 2018, The Florida Supreme Court rendered its decision in The Florida Bar v. Ratiner, 238 S. 3d 117 (Fla 2018)(Case Number SC13-539). Note that is a 2013 case number decided in 2018. It is an ...
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