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Morgan’s Tip of the Week- 2025 FL fee schedule increase and MSA’s
Greetings, Effective 1/1/25, 105 days from now, the Florida WC fee schedule for surgeries and physician visits is increasing fairly significantly. Surgeries will cost 50% more and doctor’s visits will cost 60% more (see below). Now may be the opportune time to run a Medicare Set Aside on any claims where there are future surgeries […]
Morgan’s Tip of the Week-Post-MMI treatment/annual visits
Greetings, After a claimant has reached Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI), they can continue to treat in Florida until or unless one of a few things happens: The applicable statutes are below. The first two above require an opinion from the treater. And it is always a balance, the cost of possibly causing litigation versus paying […]
Morgan’s Tip of the Week- Safety reduction
Greetings, A common phrase when discussing claims that appear to be caused by the claimant’s own less than well thought out action is “stupidity is not a defense.” However, on occasion, “stupidity” can cost the claimant money. Under the Florida WC statute, if the injury is caused by the claimant refusing to use a “safety […]
Morgan’s Tip of the Week- Settling cases quickly
Greetings, Our firm has been recognized by the largest WC TPA as having one the best file duration rates in the country. Today, they asked me to speak to their entire defense attorney panel about what our firm does differently to achieve those results. (And we could not achieve these great results without each of […]
Briefly Speaking- August 2024
Editor: Felicia Wymer, Partner, Pensacola Office Author: Travis Coleman, Junior Partner, Tampa Office Author: Libby Nelson, Associate, Orlando Office Addison v. Boston Whaler, Inc/Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America JCC Holley: Jacksonville District Order date: 6/11/2024 OJCC Case: 23-028636WRH Date of Accident: 6/06/2023 JCC Order: Click Here Briefly: One-Time Change, Authorization […]
Morgan’s Tip of the Week- Delays in Settlement Approvals
Greetings, (Technically the JCC’s do not “approve” represented settlements in FL, they approve the amount of attorney fees and child support arrearage, but you know what I mean…) Over the last several months there has been a distinct push by the Judges of Compensation Claims to be more discerning on approving claimant’s attorney fees. At […]
Briefly Speaking- July 2024
Editor: Felicia Wymer, Partner, Pensacola Authors: Travis Coleman, Junior Partner, Tampa and Libby Nelson, Associate, Orlando Ali Abukhalil v. The Home Depot USA, Inc. and Helmsman Mngt Services JCC Hedler: West Palm Beach District Order Date: 05-24-2024 OJCC Case: 22-028002TAH Date of Accident: 02-18-2022 JCC Order: Click Here Briefly: TPD / Authorized Medical Care […]
Morgan’s Tip of the Week- FL Litigation at a glance half way through 2024
Greetings, Well hard to believe we crossed the half-way point in 2024. I thought it would be a good time to look and see where the amount of litigation stands as compared to last year. So, through the first 6 months of 2024, the number of new litigated cases in Florida was down slightly. Number […]
EG Summer 2024 Gazette
Chief Editor: Tracie Childers, Associate, Orlando Editor: Lexi West, Junior Partner, Atlanta Editor: Libby Nelson, Associate, Orlando Wages in Lieu of Compensation By: Joel Brakken, Associate, Jacksonville So You Have to get Deposed! By: Chance Cuellar, Associate, Atlanta Too Little, Too Late: Statute of Limitations Issues in Georgia WC Claims By: Jordan Goldring, Associate, Atlanta […]
Morgan’s Tip of the Week- Thanksgiving in July (1-time changes)
Greetings, as I was planning out my BBQ menu for next week it hit me. July 4th falls on a Thursday; the week looks an awful lot like Thanksgiving week. That means it is ripe for the shenanigans of claimant’s 1-time change requests under 440.13 (2)(f). Due to a series of decisions by the 1st […]