Workers are often asked to “volunteer” for certain activities that have some association to employment. The association may be strong (volunteering for overtime) or weak (attending a ...
Read More In May, the Fiscal Times reported that Social Security Disability is in financial trouble. Hardly news, that has been heard for years and has been either ignored or given lip service. No real solutions have ...
Read More Governments implement legislation to fulfill a specific societal desire or “social policy objective”. One social policy objective is:
to protect workers from work-related injury, ...
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Some cases worth reading came out of the Florida First District Court of Appeal ("DCA") this week. A couple were noted in the workers' compensation newswires, but an interesting one was not. The ...
Read More There is no shortage of work for those of us connected with workers' compensation and occupational health & safety (OH&S). People continue to get hurt, develop disease and even die as a ...
Read More “Well, no one died, so what's the problem?” I have heard lines like this before and I heard it again yesterday. What irks me is that the people saying (or reported to have said) ...
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CMS has issued an updated Workers' Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) Reference Guide. The updated Guide can be found here; however, I have noted the updates below.
CMS has added a ...
Read More I received a link recently for an article in the ABA Journal. In the article, there is a tongue-in-cheek video of a "deposition that got sidetracked." The video is entertaining and interesting. The crux ...
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My post on the US Social Security Disability (SSD) issue generated a lot of email. . Most of the feedback I got expressed disbelief that 4.7% of the population aged 18 to 64 in the US are in ...
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