Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 200: Athlete Mental Health and Physical Conditioning With Dawn Staley
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV | Bad Faith Law
The Chartwell Chronicles: Understanding the Medicals
The Chartwell Chronicles: Tort Reform
Safety-ism & Jury Trials – IMS Insights Podcast Episode 61
Goldberg Segalla Product Liability Series: Containing Nuclear and Thermo Nuclear Verdicts
Lead Exposure Claims: Proactive Strategies for Effective Resolution
Protect Your Construction Project: Top 10 Insurance Provisions to Know
How Auto Defects Can Cause Passenger Injury
Proximate Cause - An Important Practice Tip for Personal Injury Lawyers
Hailey French’s Story – When millions barely cover the bills.
What happens if more than one person is responsible for an accident?
Catastrophic Impairment: What it means and why it's important to you if you've been hurt in a car accident
As a part of our Quarterly Practice Group Update, we are pleased to produce our latest installment of our continued success in fraud litigation. This report was originally conceptualized three years ago as a one-time...more
The term ‘repetitive stress injury’ covers a wide variety of conditions. A Repetitive stress or strain injury happens when too much stress is placed on a given body part and can result in pain, swelling, muscle strains, and...more
What is a Personal Injury Case? As we explain below, California law imposes a two-year statute of limitations for personal injury cases. Initially, it helps that you understand the nature of a personal injury case....more
Testa-Carr v. Sallie Mae, N23A-04-004 CEB (Del. Super. Feb. 8, 2024) - Ms. Testa-Carr worked as a customer service representative for Sallie Mae. On March 21, 2022, she was fell down some stairs and was injured while...more
Plaintiff Robin Kluttz-Ellison was the owner of Noah’s Playloft, a preschool in Salisbury, North Carolina. She had a pre-existing history of right knee problems and had a right knee arthroplasty before her alleged workplace...more
Relatively new to mediation? Or have you mediated a dozen cases — or more — already as an attorney? As a full-time mediator and arbitrator who is immersed in legal dispute resolution every day, I have found there are aspects...more
In Episode 26 of The Chartwell Chronicles, host Brittany Atkinson is joined by special guest Mark Spivak from our Moorestown, NJ office to discuss the importance of the medicals in New Jersey workers' compensation. Brittany...more
It was a busy end to the year, as courts handed down several key insurance decisions before ringing in 2023. The Ohio Supreme Court considered the contours of “direct physical loss or damage” in two separate decisions –...more
Key Takeaways - The NY Workers’ Compensation Board has announced that the new medical treatment guidelines—including new guidelines covering Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)—become effective on May 2, 2022. The guidelines...more
After the 2017 Amendments to Iowa Code Chapter 85 provided that shoulder injuries were to be compensated functionally as scheduled member injuries, instead of industrially as whole body injuries, claimants have been looking...more
Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Act, G.L. 152 §§ 1-86 offers employers certain protections from qualified employee-prosecuted work-related negligence actions at common law. It does not protect employers from honoring...more
The new pandemic aid legislation was eight months in the making, includes 5,600 pages, and $2.3 trillion in aid and spending. With national unemployment at a record high, and moratoriums on evictions, and utility shutoff...more
In Gabriel v. WCAB (Procter and Gamble Products Company), the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held that unreasonable contest counsel fees can be awarded for failure to issue a Notice of Compensation Payable acknowledging a...more
House Bill 81 goes into effect on September 15, 2020, and it includes major changes to Ohio’s workers’ compensation laws. Below are a few of the more significant changes employers need to know...more
In the last several years, there has been an increase in the number of employers who offer a remote work environment (i.e., work from home). In fact, the numbers of employees working from home have increased by 140% since...more
Beginning July 1, 2020, the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission will begin enforcing a new law that will affect how Virginia employers and their workers’ compensation insurance carriers respond to initial claims for...more
Act No. 45 of April 18, 1935, known as the Puerto Rico Compensation System for Work-Related Accidents Act (Act 45), establishes that every employer must secure compulsory insurance to cover their employees’ work-related...more
The Situation: Declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization, and with more than 17,000 cases already confirmed worldwide, preliminary estimates indicate that the latest coronavirus outbreak may not peak...more
The Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) recently proposed a 13 percent rate cut in premiums, totaling nearly $132 million, for private employers beginning July 1, 2020. The BWC’s board is expected to approve the cut at a...more
Thinking of denying a medical bill in a Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation claim for not being “causally related”? Better think twice. A new ruling from the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania suggests that denying a medical...more
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in United Financial Casualty Company v. Ball vacated a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The Court held that the district court had improperly found...more
Effective July 1, 2019, injuries in the workplace from idiopathic and unexplained falls will be subject to a new law. On April 23, 2019, Governor Reynolds signed into law an amendment to Iowa Code section 85.61(7)....more
On April 5, 2019, the Florida First District Court of Appeal issued a rare en banc opinion in the case of Valcourt-Williams v. Sedgwick CMS, regarding the compensability of an accident that occurred, when an adjuster tripped...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
Employers face liability in a variety of contexts; however, commercial general liability (“CGL”) policies “generally exclude coverage for injury to an employee ‘arising out of and in the course of’ the employment.” In...more