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By:                   Ryan M. Knight Contributor:   Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, please email esantos@eralcides.com 1st DCA ORDERS City of Hialeah/Sedgwick CMS v. Tony Bono JCC Castiello: Miami...

By: Matthew Colon, Associate, Miami In more ways than one, the law resembles a computer program. It is often nothing more than a series of parameters to which things must be confined. In order for Z to occur, X and Y must be present. Thankfully for me my...

By: LeRyan Lambert, Associate, Atlanta One of the most common and confusing procedures that Georgia employers and insurers face is forcing a claimant to return to work in order to suspend indemnity benefits. Simple procedural errors can cost weeks of additional...

By: Richard Clark, Of Counsel, Nashville As everyone in the industry knows by now, the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Act underwent a major procedural and substantive overhaul in 2013 with the relevant reforms going into effect on July 1, 2014. Tennessee...

By: Faith Searles, Associate, Tampa Workplace injuries are often associated with a single incident that immediately puts the employer on notice that they must investigate the cause of the accident, the circumstances and facts surrounding it, and hopefully eliminate...

By:                   Ryan M. Knight Contributor:   Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, please email esantos@eralcides.com 1st DCA ORDERS DHL Express, Inc. and Sedgwick CMS v. Raquel Machin JCC Massey: Tampa District     ...

By:                   Ryan M. Knight Contributor:   Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, please email esantos@eralcides.com   Robert Keefer v. City of Deerfield Beach and Broward County Sheriff JCC Hogan: Ft. Lauderdale...

By:                   Ryan M. Knight Contributor:   Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, please email esantos@eralcides.com First DCA Orders Vincent Jones v. Food Lion, Inc. and Risk Management Services JCC Humphries: Jacksonville...

By:                   Ryan M. Knight Contributor:   Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, please email esantos@eralcides.com First DCA Orders Palm Beach County BOCC, and Palm Beach County Fire/ Preferred Government Claims Solutions...

Greetings, I have been asked by several clients in the last week or so to summarize the trends I am seeing in litigation, so I will share with all.   Basically, from the claimant’s attorneys I am seeing two distinctly different styles of practice.   The Miles case,...