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Morgan’s Tip of the Week – SSD Offsets
By: Morgan Indek, Partner Greetings, Don’t yawn and go to sleep after reading the subject line. A question recently came up regarding Social Security offsets, and when to take the offset. We can only offset and reduce compensation benefits with SS Disability,...
FL Case Law Summaries – 10/29/15
JCC Orders Stella Vickers v. Florida Dept. of Business and Professional Regulations/Division of Risk Management JCC Lazzara; Tallahassee District; Order Date: September 28, 2015 OJCC Case: 15-004435JJL; D/A: 05/01/2012...
Georgia’s Posted Panel Changes
By: Ryan Lawson, Associate, Atlanta On July 1, 2015, several legislative changes went into effect which slightly amended the workers’ compensation rules and statutes. Among these changes was an increase in the Temporary Total Disability and Temporary Partial...
Settlement Negotiations Impacted by Harden
By: Jonathan Alvarez, Associate, West Palm Beach Settlements arise as a result of an agreement between two parties. In theory, these agreements are contracts under the law. When an adjuster or defense attorney and a claimant’s attorney agree to settle a claim, it is...
Recovery of Sick Leave in Previously Denied Compensation Cases
By: Lori Bethea, Associate, Tallahassee Imagine that while reviewing a request for payment of TT benefits in a case that was denied, but has just been deemed compensable, you discover that, during the time in question, the claimant was off work due to his injury and...
Romero v. Vazquez: An End to Discovery as We Know it?
By: Sarah Kippers, Associate, Gainesville Historically, employers and carriers in Florida workers’ compensation claims have been able to access a claimant’s medical history. Once an employee reports an injury to his employer, he waives his physician-patient privilege...
Morgan’s Tip of the Week (FL) – RTP Trend
By: Morgan Indek | Partner Greetings, I have seen a recent trend with claimant attorney’s seeking attorney fees for filing a Motion to Compel a response to their Request to Produce. Recently, two Judges in Central Fla have given the claimant’s attorneys hourly...
GA Tip of the Week – Revised WC-2
By: Zal Linder | Partner We were recently advised by the Board that the current WC-2 has been revised, and that they will begin rejecting the current WC-2 forms effective 10/1/15. I did a quick comparison of the 2 forms and there are virtually no real differences...
TN Update – Unemployment Rates
By: Allen Callison | Attorney On August 27th, Tennessee released its updated county-by-county unemployment rates. Although unemployment rates didn’t matter under the “old” law, under the “new” law, the unemployment rate can be an important factor in calculating the...