by EC_Admin | Oct 26, 2020 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, hope everyone is doing well. Litigation is slowly starting to increase back to pre-pandemic levels, and so is the flood of PFB’s. Since April, the number of new litigated WC claims in Florida is down 13% compared to 2019. However, since September its...
by EC_Admin | Oct 1, 2020 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, the 1st DCA issued a ruling last week clarifying-ish Major Contributing Cause and the 120 day rule in Sanchez v. Yellow Transport, 1D19-4231. The crux of the case was the E/C had authorized treatment over the years for the “lumbar spine”, and had never...
by EC_Admin | Sep 29, 2020 | Legal Updates
COVID-19 & THE OJCC REVISITED An update on the pandemic and its ongoing impact in the Florida Workers’ Compensation system. By: Wes Heim – Tampa Just a few months ago we took a look at how the OJCC had been affected by the...
by EC_Admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, the Florida Division of Workers’ Comp just put out a report summarizing the data from the COVID-19 claims through August 31. A link to the full report is below. My colleague We Heim in our Tampa office will be doing a deeper dive in an upcoming article,...
by EC_Admin | Sep 21, 2020 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, One of the impacts of the Coronavirus on litigation is the delay on the ability to do the level of discovery that is really essential in defeating or driving down the value in WC claims. Getting our arms around a claimant’s past medical history, prior...
