The Chartwell Chronicles: Permanent Disability
Physician Employment Agreements: Focus on Financial Planning
An Overview of New Jersey Workers' Compensation
An Overview of Massachusetts Workers' Compensation
Workers' Compensation Academy: Requests by Defense Counsel – A Defense Analysis of Materials Needed from Carriers and Clients for NJ Workers' Compensation Claims
An Overview of New York Workers' Compensation
Workers' Compensation Academy: Pennsylvania COVID-19 Update: Layoff or Furlough from Light Duty as a Result of COVID-19
This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions with issues spanning physician power of attorney to preexisting exclusions and the fiduciary duty of an insurance company....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 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
By July 1, 2024, employers in New York City are required to post and provide their employees with a "Workers' Bill of Rights," which has now been issued by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection ("DCWP"). DCWP also...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
Many employers are constantly faced with questions surrounding an injured worker’s entitlement to disability benefits. North Carolina, like many other states, has a workers’ compensation system in place to provide benefits to...more
On January 4, 2023, the 2023 session of the Connecticut General Assembly began. The session is scheduled to adjourn on June 7, 2023. Numerous proposed bills affecting Connecticut employers and employees will be unleashed...more
The Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act (Act) was amended in 1996 to allow an employer to take an offset against workers’ compensation wage loss benefits for 50% of Social Security retirement benefits received, if that...more
Register Today For Cranfill Sumner’s 2021 Virtual Continuing Education Seminar: Workers’ Compensation & Civil Litigation Law Updates...more
This week in our blog series on best practices in administering benefit claims, we discuss the importance of knowing and, importantly, understanding the laws governing benefit claim administration. Section 503 of ERISA...more
As mentioned in our recent blog, the date for complying with the new disability claims procedures (April 2, 2018) is rapidly approaching. In addition to making sure disability plans comply with the new rules, employers...more
In spite of certain sound bites you probably heard late last year, the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) was not repealed for employers. The individual mandate penalty was reduced to zero for a few years, beginning after 2018, so...more
Editor's Overview - For over two decades, federal law has required covered health plans and insurers to ensure that certain mental health benefits are in parity with offered medical/surgical benefits. The meaning of...more
As we prepare to turn the calendar to 2018, employers look ahead to the next wave of labor and employment regulations. On January 1, 2018, and throughout the coming year, employers across the nation will confront a host of...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
Independent contractors and other contingent workers are not currently eligible for workers’ compensation, disability benefits, health insurance coverage, and pension benefits under federal and most state laws. This may well...more