by EC_Admin | Jan 30, 2017 | News
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 5...
by EC_Admin | Jan 24, 2017 | News
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 to...
by EC_Admin | Jan 23, 2017 | News
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 EC_Admin | Jan 23, 2017 | News
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 colleagues,...
by EC_Admin | Jan 23, 2017 | News
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 EC_Admin | Jan 23, 2017 | News
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 employers,...
