Sunday, December 13, 2015

Read the Order

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I ran across a situation some months back. It was described to me as a "series of unfortunate mistakes;" at the end of the day, h...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Technology Changing Our World

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I saw an article recently that made me think about authority and humility (or lack of it). According to the Journal of the American Bar Ass...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Changing Face of Pain Treatment - a Game Changer?

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I have noted before that many of the issues we face in workers' compensation do not necessarily make it into the national media . But ...
Sunday, December 6, 2015

Communication may be the key

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We have some exceptional people working for the Office of Judges of Compensation Claims. I received an email recently from attorneys compl...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

Its a Non-Final Order, that Matters in Workers' Compensation

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In July, I ran across Empara v. New Rochelle School District . A New York case that makes for an interesting reminder of finality and appel...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Occupational Disease and the Zadroga Act

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Most of us recently took a pause in our daily lives to be thankful for something. It is an annual ritual during which many of us eat too mu...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Misclassification and Regulation, Will Government be Nimble

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently announced that it will scramble to enact registration regulations for remote control airc...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

It's not the Age, its the Mileage

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Back in 1981, the Bangles released a cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s Hazy Shade of Winter. A memorable lyric is “time, time, time, see what’...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The Bumped Knee Massacree

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If it doesn't work, is it fraud?  If the result of some accident turns out to not be an injury, is it fraud to visit the doctor to...