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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An interesting decision of the Federal District Court for the Northern District was rendered in November 2018. The connection of that decision to workers' compensation may not be obvious to some. However, it ...
Read More On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held a high level overview webinar of changes coming to the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal (MSPRP), as we recently ...
Read More One of the persistent challenges for trial attorneys is the admission of evidence to prove their claims or defenses. The admissibility of evidence in workers' compensation proceedings is controlled by the ...
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In much of workers' compensation across America, benefits are delivered to injured workers administratively. There is an accident or illness, the employer is notified, and either that employer or an ...
Read More I’ve been a local prosecutor, a federal prosecutor, a managing attorney at the Inspector General’s Office for the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board, and finally head of the ...
Read More The Florida Bar News recently reported on the disbarment of an attorney in December 2018. This happens periodically, but this instance has some interesting elements that distinguish it. The Bar News article ...
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