The Chartwell Chronicles: New Jersey Attorney Fees
The Chartwell Chronicles: New Jersey Caselaw Updates
What's the Tea in L&E? Injury or Disability: What's the Difference?
The Chartwell Chronicles: Understanding the Medicals
The Chartwell Chronicles: Florida Workers' Compensation
LFLM LAW with L.A.W - EPISODE 20 - Legal beginnings - A New Attorney’s Journey
The Chartwell Chronicles: FAQs & Hot Topics
The Chartwell Chronicles: Second Injury Fund
The Chartwell Chronicles: Release & Resignation
LFLM LAW with L.A.W - Are AMEs still the solution with Tanya Johnson, Attorney, San Francisco
Detecting Fraud in New Jersey Workers' Compensation
The Chartwell Chronicles: New Jersey Workers’ Comp Alert
LFLM LAW with L.A.W - Adjuster to Attorney
Risk Transfer, Employer Liability, and Grave Injuries: Who Is Going to Pay?
LFLM LAW with L.A.W - Remote Trials
The Chartwell Chronicles: Expanding Our Conversation
The Chartwell Chronicles: Medical Provider Claims
The Chartwell Chronicles: Total Temporary Disability
OSHA Recordkeeping Regulations: Understanding the Fine Print
Katherine A. Lawry v. County of Butler (WCAB); No. 593 C.D. 2022; filed March 6, 2024; Judge Covey - The claimant suffered a work injury to her right thumb in the nature of a strain/sprain. The injury was later expanded by...more
In Delaware, employees injured on the job are often entitled to workers' compensation benefits for medical expenses and wages lost by being unable to work during recovery. However, in some cases, the injured worker's claim...more
In an interesting decision, the Appellate Court (Garzon v Morris County Golf Club, App Div. decided December 23, 2022) overturned the awarding of counsel fees for permanency and fees on a Motion for Medical Temporary Total...more
When Labor Code Sections 4060, 4061, 4062, 4062.1 and 4062.2 were enacted, the panel Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) process was supposed to be simpler and less costly. As is often true, the legislation did not necessarily...more
In a February 3, 2022 opinion by the Utah Court of Appeals, the struggle that courts have in distinguishing between employees and independent contractors continues. In Jensen Tech Services and Sentinel Insurance Company,...more
In a recent decision, New Jersey Transit’s Motion to Dismiss was affirmed by the Appellate Court on February 2, 2022. The petitioner had appealed from the October 7, 2020 Order of the Workers' Compensation Court granting the...more
In an unpublished decision by the Superior Court on September 30, 2021, the Appellate Division affirmed an Order from the Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) finding a 25% permanent partial disability following a work-related...more
Register Today For Cranfill Sumner’s 2021 Virtual Continuing Education Seminar: Workers’ Compensation & Civil Litigation Law Updates...more
On August 7, 2020, the New Jersey Appellate Division upheld the trial court’s dismissal of a negligence action filed by a leased warehouse worker against his employer for injuries sustained while on duty. In Hocutt v. Minda...more
The compensability of medical marijuana costs for a workers’ compensation claim turns on an individualized inquiry of whether such treatment is reasonable and necessary, and not whether the use of medical marijuana is...more
In its June 16 decision in Frett v. State Farm Employee Workers’ Compensation, the Supreme Court of Georgia overruled an 85-year-old decision which held that workplace injuries incurred during “scheduled rest breaks” were not...more
On January 13, 2020, the Appellate Division ruled that medical marijuana may provide a reasonable and necessary form of treatment in workers’ compensation cases. In Hager v. M&K Construction, the Appellate Division affirmed a...more
On January 16, 2020, the New Mexico Supreme Court issued its decision in Mendoza v. Isleta Resort and Casino, holding that a tribe does not waive its sovereign immunity to workers’ compensation claims merely by committing in...more
In a case of first impression, a New Jersey Appellate Division panel ruled on Monday, January 13, 2020, that an employee’s costs to use medical marijuana to treat his chronic pain caused by an on-the-job injury can legally be...more
In its 55th opinion this year, the Utah Supreme Court clarified that worker’s compensation applies to an employee who is injured not only on the employer’s premises, but also on the premises of another “in such proximity and...more
On May 21, 2019, the Oklahoma Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision that is good news for employers and, at least for now, finally makes clear there is only one path for filing workers’ compensation-based...more
In Wilson v. State of California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, ADJ10116932 (filed 5/10/19), the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board held in an en banc decision that determination of whether an injury is...more
Valley Stairs and Rails v. WCAB (Parsons), No. 110 C.D. (Cmwlth Ct. 2019) - In Valley Stairs, the Commonwealth Court addressed the issue of the date a claimant’s workers’ compensation benefits become payable, under Section...more
On March 7, 2019, the Florida 1st District Court of Appeals addressed “what happens when a workers’ compensation claimant seeks care from a doctor who—as a condition of continued treatment—demands compensation above and...more
Note: There has been an update to this post due to legislation passed during the 2019 Iowa Legislative session. ... The Iowa Supreme Court recently issued a decision that re-examined compensability of idiopathic injuries,...more
What privacy rights is a Plaintiff afforded for the medical information related to a workers’ compensation claim? Mastanduno v. Nat’l Freight Industries - The opinion arose from an interlocutory appeal by the plaintiff...more
What should a Pennsylvania employer do when an employee seeks workers’ compensation benefits after injuring himself by engaging in risky behavior at work? ...more
In a game-changing decision, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals recently ruled that temporary employees who have not filed a compensation claim under Wisconsin’s Worker’s Compensation Act may sue their temporary employer in tort....more
On January 9, 2018, District III of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals held that temporary workers who are injured while working for their host employers have the right to elect either to claim workers’ compensation benefits or...more
Many readers know that statutory protections passed by state legislatures and Congress are often written to favor the rights of employees. One such statute is South Carolina’s workers’ compensation law. The law requires...more