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An Overview of New Jersey Workers' Compensation
An Overview of Massachusetts Workers' Compensation
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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
Employers faced many obstacles over the last few years, but the Ohio Supreme Court just gave them a welcomed boost in a ruling that should significantly reduce workers’ compensation claim costs. In a highly contentious 4-3...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
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
In a decision that will significantly impact Ohio employers, the Tenth District Court of Appeals has ruled that workers’ compensation claimants are entitled to temporary total disability benefits even if terminated for cause....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
An employee is injured on the job and cannot immediately return to work. Whether to offer salary continuation or permit temporary total disability compensation to be paid under the workers’ compensation claim is a...more
Register Today For Cranfill Sumner’s 2021 Virtual Continuing Education Seminar: Workers’ Compensation & Civil Litigation Law Updates...more
Chartwell Law's Brittany Atkinson, Esq., Kevin J. Riefenstahl, Esq., and Colin J. Davis, Esq. present this informative webinar addressing the fundamentals of New Jersey workers' compensation and cover: • Classifications of...more
Chartwell Law's Thomas A. Richard, Esq. and Jamie Spiller Kaplan, Esq. present this informative webinar addressing the fundamentals of Massachusetts workers' compensation and cover: • What types of injury are compensable; •...more
What do you need to provide your defense counsel with for the defense of a claim? Partners Jennifer Laver and Robert Hanneman discuss what defense counsels need to give an accurate analysis of a claim, compensability, medical...more
Chartwell Law's Adam T. Devine, Esq. and Jason D. Lewis, Esq. present this informative webinar addressing the fundamentals of New York workers’ compensation and cover: • The claims process including initiation of a claim and...more
I previously wrote about an Iowa workers’ compensation arbitration decision, Wood v. Vermeer Manufacturing Company, that dealt with how to compensate unscheduled work injuries under the 2017 amendments, specifically when the...more
Weber Gallagher Workers’ Compensation Partners David Greene and Jeffrey Seyfried discuss how COVID-19 is affecting employers who have to layoff or furlough workers from light-duty and if you have to reinstate total disability...more
On October 17, the Pennsylvania Senate signed the previously approved House Bill 1840, known as the “Protz Workers’ Compensation Legislative Fix,” which is expected to be signed into law by Governor Tom Wolf within the next...more
Experts are predicting a 95% chance of heavier-than-usual seasonal rainfall this year in Southern California based on the phenomenon known as “El Niño.” Did the California Legislature and its Governor produce a comparable...more