by EC_Admin | Mar 7, 2017 | News
By: Gina Case, Associate, Sarasota As a business, insurance companies seek to provide appropriate benefits while minimizing loss. With this in mind, the goal of any adjuster is to administer claims paying out what is due and weeding out what is not. As with most...
by EC_Admin | Mar 7, 2017 | News
By: Ryan Lawson, Associate, Atlanta Over the last few months, I have had the pleasure of handling a few unique cases involving cardiac pathology, including one heart attack case victory in December, and another rather complicated claim involving a cardiac-related...
by EC_Admin | Mar 7, 2017 | News
By: Mike Quiggins, Partner, Tallahassee In our January edition of the Eraclides Gazette, Miami attorney Matthew Colon discussed the influx of claimant requests for one time change of physicians of a different specialty, especially in cases where the 5 day carrier...
by EC_Admin | Mar 7, 2017 | News
By: Christopher Mossallati, Associate, Fort Myers Over the past several years, carriers have had to significantly adjust their decision-making in cases involving prior work injuries and major contributing cause (MCC). The First DCA rendered an opinion in Pearson v....
by EC_Admin | Mar 1, 2017 | News
By: Ryan M. Knight Contributor: Thomas G. Portuallo To receive daily e-mails with case law summaries, please email esantos@eralcides.com JCC ORDERS David Dove v. Bennett Auto Supply and Travelers Insurance JCC Owens: Port St. Lucie...
by EC_Admin | Feb 21, 2017 | News
Greetings, the 1st DCA just affirmed (without written opinion) a JCC decision denying a claim for idiopathic/MCC, in Wendall v. Enterprise/York (links below). In this case, an 86 year old claimant simply fell while walking. She did not know what caused her to fall,...
