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
Key Points: The New Jersey workers’ compensation statute and applicable case law protects employers’ worker’s compensation lien rights against an injured worker’s third-party recovery....more
Webb v. State of Delaware, 2024 WL 2077263 (Del. Super. May 9, 2024) - Mr. Webb workers’ compensation claim was denied, and he filed a petition with the Industrial Accident Board that sought acknowledgment of the accident,...more
Terhune v. Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J., No. A-3206-22 (May 8, 2024) - The petitioner had worked for the respondent since 2007. On December 14, 2013, he reported for mandatory snow duty and as a result, he had to stay at the...more
Verilyn Lunsford v. Hospital Housekeeping Systems Inc. and Corvel Corporation, OJCC# 21-028027, St. Petersburg District, JCC Moneyham, Decision Date: Nov. 30, 2023 - The claimant requested compensability, evaluation and...more
This week appeared to be a busy docket for New York workers’ compensation cases. The 3rd Dept. released four opinions on Thursday May 30, 2024. Read their summaries below. Garofalo v. Verizon CV-23-1298....more
Driscoll v. Costco, No. A-2789-21 (Feb. 20, 2024) - The Appellate Division affirmed the workers’ compensation order denying the petitioner’s motion for medical and temporary benefits and two other orders denying her motions...more
This week the 3rd Department released three new cases. Learn more below. Dexter Morgan v. Kinray, Inc., et al. (4/25/24) - In this case, the 3rd Dept. upheld a decision disallowing an occupational repetitive use claim. The...more
Donald Smith v. H&H Transportation, Inc., No. A-3568-21 (Dec. 20, 2023) - The Appellate Division affirmed the workers’ compensation order denying the petitioner’s motion for medical/temporary benefits. In January 2017, the...more
Dionicio Rodriguez v. Shelbourne Spring, LLC, et al. and Sir Electric, LLC v. Hartford Underwriters Ins. Co., No. A-2079-22 (Dec. 22, 2023) - The Appellate Division affirmed the Law Division order granting Hartford...more
Resources for Human Development, Inc. and Gallagher Bassett Services v. Sherry Dixon (WCAB); No. 494 C.D. 2022; filed Dec. 20, 2023; President Judge Cohn Jubelirer - The claimant sustained an injury on December 29, 2018,...more
This month, the Ohio Supreme Court altered the landscape of more than 25 years of workers’ compensation legal precedent in an employer-friendly decision concerning termination of Temporary Total Disability compensation....more
Can an injured worker receive benefits past the 500-week cap in North Carolina? If your first answer was no, then you have come to the right place!...more
Under the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act, the total loss of a member or loss of vision is a compensable injury....more
With respect to workplace injuries, The North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act is a legislative fix to a common law problem. The Act is sometimes called “the grand compromise” because it was crafted so as to balance the...more
Register Today For Cranfill Sumner’s 2021 Virtual Continuing Education Seminar: Workers’ Compensation & Civil Litigation Law Updates...more
Senate Bill 213 is still working its way through the California Legislature and, as such, is not yet in effect. Because health care workers have significantly increased exposure or susceptibility to particular work-related...more
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, one question that has surely raced through the minds of many employers is, “If one of my workers gets sick from COVID-19, can I be sued?” This author’s longstanding view on lawsuits...more
Nous vous proposons, dans cette newsletter, de revenir sur les nouvelles règles applicables au détachement de salariés en France, issues de la loi Avenir professionnel du 5 septembre 2018, applicables pour la majeure partie...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Legislature has passed a series of bills for Governor Newsom to consider. He now has until October 13 to approve or veto bills such as a Dynamex codification bill and a San Francisco-inspired...more
It was inevitable that some of the 1993 reforms that stabilized Maine’s workers’ compensation market and brought Maine closer to the national average in terms of cost and benefits would be peeled back when the 129th...more
Even when a claims administrator approves a claim for disability benefits, its job is not done. That principle was again demonstrated in the recent case Owings v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Co., No. 16-3128 (10th Cir....more
State Budget Law 42/2016 of December 28, 2017 - Enacted Legislation - Effective January 1, 2017, State Budget Law for 2017 introduced various modifications to the labor law landscape, which have had an immediate...more