While rumor has it the Arkansas opt-out bill, Download Ark Opt Out Bill (002), does not have time to be enacted into law, it has nevertheless provided me with a wonderful opportunity to get a look into the ...
Read More The more intense the relationship, the more intense perhaps its dissolution. I have been fortunate to never practice family law, but I have heard many stories from attorneys and judges. There is an intensity ...
Read More I've just caught wind today that a bill, SB673, has been filed in the current Arkansas legislative session that would (as far as I can tell on first inspection) revive the workers' compensation ...
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I recently had a chance to talk to an old lawyer acquaintance, J. Horace Middlemier, III. He is a sometimes curious practitioner who tends to bring me perspectives that are interesting and thought provoking. ...
Read More Return to work is not a neutral concept. The premise of the workers’ comp system is that we make injured workers whole. That means restoring capacity to earn an income. which leads to targeting a ...
Read More There has been mention on this blog of the coming age of the robots. There are those who see technology invading our workplaces and changing the nature of, or even existence of, occupations and ...
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Ex post facto law is defined by the freedictionary.com as "retroactively" changing the law. Specifically, doing so to "increase the punishment for a criminal act," or to "punish conduct that ...
Read More Enforcement of the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Act has been increasingly in the news lately, with results that are alarming for both primary plans and plaintiff attorneys.
Primary plans ...
Read More Workers' compensation cancer presumptions are not new. This blog has addressed the topic some with Cancer Presumptions for Firefighters (2014), Firefighters Seek to Change Cancer (2016), ...
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