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Nov 30, 2022

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Oct 13, 2022

Bankruptcy Court Nixes WI Claimant’s Effort to Avoid Paying Med Providers

Where a Wisconsin worker settled a contested workers’ compensation claim with his employer and its insurer by means of a compromise settlement agreement that called for the payment of $120,000 to the claimant, $30,000....

Bankruptcy Court Nixes WI Claimant’s Effort to Avoid Paying Med Providers Bankruptcy Court Nixes WI Claimant’s Effort to Avoid Paying Med Providers
Oct 13, 2022

Opinion Mondays: As to AMA Guides, is There an Alternative to Protz?

In a decision that may have slipped beneath the radar of insurers, administrators, and attorneys whose work is not directly impacted by the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act [33 U.S.C.S §§ 901, et seq.] (“the Act” or “the Longshore Act”), and yet which, as I argue below...

Opinion Mondays: As to AMA Guides, is There an Alternative to Protz? Opinion Mondays: As to AMA Guides, is There an Alternative to Protz?
Oct 13, 2022

Opinion Mondays: The AMA is on Another Collision Course With Protz

The first session at tomorrow afternoon's (August 18, 2020) virtual conference, sponsored by Workers' Compensation Institute, has really piqued my interest. Entitled, "THE NEW AMA Guides®" (hereinafter "the Guides"), it begs the question: "When will the 7th Edition of the Guides be released?"....

Opinion Mondays: The AMA is on Another Collision Course With Protz Opinion Mondays: The AMA is on Another Collision Course With Protz
Jan 13, 2022

Opinion Mondays: Is California’s “Posse Law” Passe?

In a case involving an utterly bizarre fact pattern, as well as a legal battle stretching out over the bulk of a decade, the Supreme Court of California, in a 5-2 decision, held that a civil action for negligence and misrepresentation filed by two private citizens against...

Opinion Mondays: Is California’s “Posse Law” Passe? Opinion Mondays: Is California’s “Posse Law” Passe?
Jan 13, 2020

Opinion Mondays: Those Hiring Undocumented Workers Should Not be Allowed to Game the System

In a deeply divided (3-2) decision, a New York appellate court reversed a decision by the state's Workers' Compensation Compensation Board that had found an injured, undocumented construction worker had failed to establish, through a diligent, relevant search for employment, that he maintained the required connection to the labor market....

Opinion Mondays: Those Hiring Undocumented Workers Should Not be Allowed to Game the System Opinion Mondays: Those Hiring Undocumented Workers Should Not be Allowed to Game the System
Jan 9, 2020

The Top 10 Bizarre Workers’ Comp Cases for 2019

As I have noted many times on this blog site, more than 30 years ago my mentor, Dr. Arthur Larson, and I began a quirky—though humorous—New Year’s tradition. On an...

The Top 10 Bizarre Workers’ Comp Cases for 2019 The Top 10 Bizarre Workers’ Comp Cases for 2019
Jan 4, 2019

The Top 10 Bizarre Workers’ Comp Cases for 2018

Annual “Bizarre” List Began More Than 30 Years Ago More than 30 years ago, my mentor, Dr. Arthur Larson, and I began a quirky New Year’s tradition. Early one January...

The Top 10 Bizarre Workers’ Comp Cases for 2018 The Top 10 Bizarre Workers’ Comp Cases for 2018
Nov 15, 2018

The Quiet Before the Storm

Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis, 2018 Edition For the past six years, I have been pleased to be a primary editor and contributing author of an annual publication, Workers’ Compensation...

The Quiet Before the Storm The Quiet Before the Storm
Sep 18, 2018

I’ve Written a New Book from the “Other Side” of my Life

I am pleased to announce the recent publication of my new book entitled, Questions of Faith: Encountering Christ at the Point of Doubt and Confusion [Mazarin Press, Raleigh, NC; additional...

I’ve Written a New Book from the “Other Side” of my Life I’ve Written a New Book from the “Other Side” of my Life