by EC_Admin | Jun 29, 2016 | News
By Sean Jordan, Associate, Orlando The exclusive-remedy provision of Florida Workers’ Compensation law defines the sole and total liability of an employer for injuries to an employee and expressly extends to the husband or wife, parents, dependents, and next of...
by EC_Admin | Jun 29, 2016 | News
By: Jamie Sanders, Partner, Birmingham How many jurisdictions apply the “but for” standard to the issue of compensability? You know, the premise that because the employee’s injury occurred at work it is compensable? This seems like the plausible outcome, but hold...
by EC_Admin | Jun 29, 2016 | News
By: Fred Vitale, Associate, Tampa Just prior to the Florida Supreme Court’s decision in Castellanos, the First DCA issued another important opinion regarding attorney’s fees in Miles v. City of Edgewater Police Department, Case No. 1D15-0165, 41 Fla. L. Weekly D 985...
by EC_Admin | Jun 28, 2016 | News
BY: Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, e-mail: Esantos@eraclides.com 1ST DCA ORDERS Deborah Evans v. Holland & Knight/Sentry Insurance Appeal of the Order from JCC Lorenzen DCA Order Date: June 24, 2016 ...
by EC_Admin | Jun 28, 2016 | News
Greetings, With the reinstitution of hourly fees, we may see this old angle on attendant care make a comeback. What we would often see is a PFB asking for attendant care, and after a review of the file, the adjuster would deny it as no doctor had prescribed attendant...
by EC_Admin | Jun 27, 2016 | News
BY: Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, e-mail: Esantos@eraclides.com JCC ORDERS Genson Idorvil v. Keystaff, Inc./Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc. JCC Lewis; Ft. Lauderdale District; Order Date: June 22, 2016 OJCC Case: 15-006243DAL;...
