by EC_Admin | Apr 10, 2017 | News
By: Sean O’Neil, Associate, Jacksonville It is hardly a unique situation– the claimant files a Petition for Benefits seeking an orthopedic referral or authorization of diagnostic testing while under the care of an authorized physician, but fails to attach the...
by EC_Admin | Apr 10, 2017 | News
By: Ya’Sheaka Williams, Partner, Tampa What is the employer/carrier’s responsibility to an injured worker when an injury causes such disability that their current residence cannot accommodate them? This occurs in cases where the claimant sustains a catastrophic injury...
by EC_Admin | Apr 10, 2017 | News
By: Ryan Knight, Associate, Miami It is every adjuster’s worst nightmare, a serious accident followed by the development of an even more serious medical condition. What happens when a claimant is involved in a compensable accident and then suffers a heart attack or...
by EC_Admin | Apr 5, 2017 | News
Greetings, Soon we could be faced with claimants who, as my grandmother would say, are “taking the pot”. And I have recently been asked by several clients how to deal with “certifications” for usage of medical marijuana (it will be called a certification and not a...
by EC_Admin | Mar 21, 2017 | News
Greetings, well we are almost 11 months into the post-Castellanos world, and one thing is for certain; there has been an increase in Petitions for Benefits. Compiling the good and the bad of what I have seen over the past few months, here are a few do’s and dont’s in...
by EC_Admin | Mar 13, 2017 | News
Greetings, as part of our Firm’s Briefly Speaking updates, a separate update is done on just the attorney fee awards so we can all track our exposure. For January, for the cases that went to a fee hearing, the dollars awarded were: Hourly rate Total Venue...
