by EC_Admin | Nov 1, 2021 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, Often, we have to treat a claimant’s underlying personal health condition to get it under control so they can treat for our compensable WC injury. The treatment of personal health conditions would fall under the Hindrance to recovery theory, and common...
by EC_Admin | Oct 12, 2021 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, Well maybe I don’t know what I thought I knew. Since the 1989 Grimes case, the law on idiopathic accidents had been fairly well settled. Idiopathic accidents are when a claimant is just walking and their knee gives way, or they pass out, suffer a seizure...
by EC_Admin | Sep 21, 2021 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, Several issues often pop up after a claimant is seen at the hospital following a work accident. Here are a couple of scenarios, resulting issues and possible solutions: Employer doesn’t know the claimant went to the hospital- Sometimes the Employer may...
by EC_Admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, I miss doing tips about carpal tunnel and stuff. The FL Department of Financial Services has released an updated report on the Covid WC claims statistics through 7/31/21. A link to the entire report is below, but here are some nuggets I pulled from the...
by EC_Admin | Aug 19, 2021 | Legal Updates
Wes Heim – Tampa wheim@eraclides.com In July of 2020 we took a look at the OJCC and the impact of COVID-19 generally (July 2020 Article) and in September I revisited the topic noting some of the emerging litigation trends (September 2020 Article). Just a few...
