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BY: Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, e-mail: Colette Duke JCC ORDERS Michael Morales v. MK Automotive Management, LLC/Summit JCC Hill; Gainesville District; Order Date: March 22, 2016 OJCC Case: 15-029463MRH; D/A: 4/6/2015...

BY: Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, e-mail: Colette Duke JCC ORDERS Melida Winger v. Sears Holdings Corporation /Sedgwick CMS JCC Basquill; West Palm Beach District; Order Date: March 21, 2016 OJCC Case: 90-000215TMB; D/A:...

  BY: Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, e-mail: Colette Duke 1ST DCA ORDERS THG Rentals & Sales of Clearwater, Inc./Summit Holdings-Claims Center v. James C. Arnold Appeal of the Order from JCC Stephen L. Rosen DCA Order...

For this tip I am going to focus only on dates of accident after 10/1/2003.  For PTD to be ripe (until we hear otherwise from the Fla Supreme Court), the claimant must either be at overall MMI, be able to prove PTD based on restrictions/MMI for one of the injured...

BY: Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, e-mail: Colette Duke JCC ORDERS Thomas Blalock v. Southeast Personnel Leasing/Packard Claims Administration JCC Hill; Gainesville District; Order Date: March 15, 2016 OJCC Case: 13-015363MRH;...

BY: Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, e-mail: Colette Duke JCC ORDERS Rafael Berrios v. Winter Park Police Dept./Johns Eastern Company, Inc. JCC Pitts; Orlando District; Order Date: March 11, 2016 OJCC Case: 14-016171NPP; D/A:...

BY: Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, e-mail: Colette Duke 1ST DCA ORDERS Brian Gonzalez v. St. Lucie County – Fire District/Florida Municipal Insurance Trust – Florida League of Cities, Inc. Appeal of the Order from JCC Robert...

BY: Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, e-mail: Colette Duke JCC ORDERS Leon McQuay v. Envirofocus Technologies, LLC/Chartis Insurance JCC Lorenzen; Tampa District; Order Date: March 7, 2016   OJCC Case: 15-022935EHL; D/A: 1/6/2014...

The State Board has provided some clarification about the new nurse case management Board Rule.  According to the governing authorities, when scheduling a conference with a treating doctor the case manager is to provide 10 days notice to the Claimant and opposing...

BY:  Morgan Indek | Partner Greetings, I have had this issue come up several times in the last week…so I thought I would address it.  For legal purposes, unless a conflict develops, the Employer and Carrier are viewed as one for certain  aspects of the statute.  ...