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Find Solutions & Strategies April 5, 2010 |
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| How to Stay on Top of Case Developments |
| Larson's Spotlight features noteworthy cases each week |
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| A Note From the Editor |
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| Dear WC Professionals:
This free eNewsletter is designed to keep you informed of recent trends & developments nationwide. I look forward to hearing your comments & suggestions.
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Robin E. Kobayashi, J.D.
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Steven D. Feinberg, M.D. on Medications and Chronic Pain
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| Workers' Comp Profile |
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 Rebecca A. Shafer is an attorney specializing in risk management, workers' compensation and litigation management. She was in-house counsel for a Fortune 500 Corporation where she managed claims and litigation. She also developed and led the workers' compensation risk management consulting practices and training facilities for Marsh and Aon Risk Services. Most recently, she has developed WorkersCompKit, a unique online workers' compensation tool kit. She is a frequent contributor to the LexisNexis Workers' Compensation Law Community and serves on the Executive Committee for the Larson's National Workers' Compensation Advisory Board.
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| How will health care reform impact workers' comp?
Too soon to tell - 50%
Will improve workers' comp systems - 32%
Will undermine workers' comp systems - 18% |
| Larson's on Mental Stress |
| "The Treatise simplified the issue [of stress] by setting to one side the 'mental-physical' and the 'physical-mental' cases. In the first, a shock or strain or fright produces, for example, a heart attack; all states hold this compensable. In the second, the victim of a real traumatic injury retains a disabling neurosis or 'conversion hysteria'; all states also compensate these cases. In both categories there is something physical for courts to get hold of. This leaves my third category: 'mental-mental.' A mental stimulus produces a mental or nervous collapse. There is nothing 'physical' in the colloquial sense, and for many years most of these cases went uncompensated, although the worker was as clearly disabled as if he had broken his neck."
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| Larson's spotlight: 5 recent cases you should know about |
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 Larson's Spotlight reports noteworthy workers' comp cases each week. This list was compiled by Thomas A. Robinson, a staff writer for Larson's Workers' Compensation Law, the nation's leading authority on workers' compensation law.
#1 Ohio: Bank Employee Recovers Benefits for Trauma Associated With Shooting During Robbery.
#2 Florida: Where Injuries Aren't "Readily Observable," Claimant Must Offer Expert Medical Evidence of Causation.
#3 Georgia: Husband of Injured Worker Reimbursed for Attendant Care Provided to Wife.
#4 Ohio: State's Most Recent "Substantially Certain" Statute Allowing Torts Actions Against Employers in Limited Circumstances Found Constitutional.
#5 Ohio: Employer May Be Liable in Tort Where Employer Withholds Travel Money From Worker's Pay to Reimburse Another Employee Driver. |
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| BLOG ROUNDUP |
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The Impact of Obesity on the Resolution of Workers' Compensation Claims, by Maureen Kohl Bennington, M.S., CCM, CDMS, CPUR, CRC. Read it
 Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter - Recent Arrests, Charges, Convictions, Investigations 4/1/2010. Read it
Prevention in Health Reform, by John Howard, MD, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Read it
Who Is an "Employee": Construction Workers, Dock Workers, and Specialty Occupations, by Yelena Zaslavskaya, Counsel for Longshore Office of Administrative Law Judges, U.S. Department of Labor. Read it
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| world health day: april 7, 2010 |
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April 7, 2010 is World Health Day. Events will be organized worldwide during the week of 7-11 April 2010. The global goals of the campaign are:
- 1000 cities: to open up public spaces to health, whether it be activities in parks, town hall meetings, clean-up campaigns, or closing off portions of streets to motorized vehicles.
- 1000 lives: to collect 1000 stories of urban health champions who have taken action and had a significant impact on health in their cities.
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 My Thoughts on Workers' Compensation and the Impact of the Larson Treatise - An Interview With Lex K. Larson. Read it | |
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| what's new in larson's workers' compensation law |
Lexis.com subscribers to Larson's Workers' Compensation Law can link to the chapter discussion below. Find out more about how to become a Larson's online subscriber by contacting Caroline.Conway@lexisnexis.com.
Successive Awards in Different States. The Chapter 141 discussion related to the "double recovery" problems that arise from the fact that an injured employee may sometimes be able to recover benefits under the workers' compensation laws of more than one statute has been revised and updated. The chapter discusses the legal and historic importance of three United States Supreme Court decisions: Magnolia, McCartin, and Thomas and concludes that multiple awards can apply to a single compensable injury, so long as each state has a relevant interest in the case. The injured employee is due but one total recovery, however. Successive awards can be made in different states, so long as the first award is deducted from the second. |
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 Vernon Sumwalt on North Carolina Preapproval and Awards of Retroactive Attendant Care Services. Read excerpt here before purchasing
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