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FL Case Law Summaries – 2/6/17
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 RetailFirst Insurance Co. and ServPro of S.E. Florida v. Brenton Davis JCC Lorenzen: Tampa...
Morgan’s Tip of the Week – 1-Time Change
Greetings, Last week the 1st DCA issued a good decision for us in the 1-time change arena in RetailFirst Ins. v. Davis (1D16-2310) attached. The court ruled that when an Employer/Carrier does not timely respond to a claimant’s request for a 1-time change within the...
Morgan’s Tip Of the Week – PTD Trends
Greetings, In my last tip I mentioned the rise in PTD claims, and also that (in my opinion) it is now easier to prove PTD. Boy did that prompt a lot of questions, so here goes: One of the impacts of Castellanos is some (not all) claimant’s attorneys are hanging on...
FL Case Law Summaries – 1/23/17
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...
New Pitfalls to Avoid Regarding One-Time Changes in Florida
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...
Georgia’s Return to Light Duty and the WC-240 Process
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...
Major Procedural Changes to Mediation/Hearing in Tennessee
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...
Repetitive Motion Injuries: Defend, Defend, Defend!
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...
FL Case Law Summaries – 1/16/17
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 ...
FL Case Law Summaries – 1/13/17
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...