by EC_Admin | Oct 12, 2021 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, Well maybe I don’t know what I thought I knew. Since the 1989 Grimes case, the law on idiopathic accidents had been fairly well settled. Idiopathic accidents are when a claimant is just walking and their knee gives way, or they pass out, suffer a seizure...
by EC_Admin | Sep 21, 2021 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, Several issues often pop up after a claimant is seen at the hospital following a work accident. Here are a couple of scenarios, resulting issues and possible solutions: Employer doesn’t know the claimant went to the hospital- Sometimes the Employer may...
by EC_Admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, I miss doing tips about carpal tunnel and stuff. The FL Department of Financial Services has released an updated report on the Covid WC claims statistics through 7/31/21. A link to the entire report is below, but here are some nuggets I pulled from the...
by EC_Admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, As you can imagine with the surge in Covid cases due to the Delta variant, I am seeing a big increase in the number of questions I am getting about Covid compensability situations. My colleague Wes Heim in our Tampa office is preparing an article...
by EC_Admin | Jul 28, 2021 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, Over the last week I have received several questions about compensability of accidents in parking lots and being off the clock. First issue that needs to be sorted out is whether the parking lot is considered the employer’s premises. Under the Premises...
by EC_Admin | Jul 12, 2021 | Morgan's Tips of the Week
Greetings, On June 30, the 1st DCA ruled on whether an Employer/Carrier has to authorize a “referral for Medical Marijuana” in Jones v. Grace Healthcare (1D19-1684), case attached. The DCA found the E/C did not have to authorize the referral: “Under Florida law,...
