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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The Florida Legislature has passed CS/CS/CS/SB182 (committee substitute for Senate Bill 182), and it has been signed into law. This amends section 381.986, Fla. Stat. There has been significant news coverage ...
Read More On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland issued a press release concerning a settlement arrangement involving the repayment of ...
Read More Some problems don’t jump out at you so much as lurk. At the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute’s conference in Phoenix in February, two speakers hit upon the same worry creeping ...
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