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.
There are challenges with medical costs in America. For some reason, medical inflation has run well in excess of inflation generally. See Medical Charges and Challenges and The Conundrum of ...
Read More Not a workers' compensation case, but interesting contract litigation in the Florida panhandle resulted in an interesting appellate decision in Tarantola v. Henghold, 254 So. 2d 1110 (Fla.1st DCA 2018). ...
Read More What is good about workers' compensation? There are some who might decry that question, and respond with a firm and unequivocal "nothing." But they are wrong. There is so much going on in this community that ...
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There has been much publicity in Florida this spring as The Florida Bar has focused on the health and wellness of its members. It all seemed to start in early 2018 when then Bar President Michael Higer ...
Read More There is a perception that in Florida a great many litigation allegations are leveled regarding "fraud." This is mentioned in multiple appellate decisions such as Isaac v. Green Iguana, Inc., 871 So.2d ...
Read More One of the less publicized bills of the 2019 Florida session is House Bill (HB) 409. As yet, it has not been signed by the Governor. If signed, it will put Florida among 21 states that have ...
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There is nothing in this world that is free. Several years ago, I penned Someone has to Pay. I have had significant feedback on that over the years. Some perceive the solution to medical care costs as ...
Read More In April 2019, the Supreme Court of Florida (SCOF) rendered approval of a consent judgement in The Florida Bar v. Spradley, Case No SC18-1592. The case is instructive on several points, and worthy of ...
Read More The OJCC Clerks recently got an order that told the clerk to change the carrier on a particular case from “AIG Claims” to “Commerce & Industry Insurance Co./AIG Claims.” The ...
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