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 Causation and Effect: Workers' Comp Experts Discuss Impact of Rising Costs on Causation Standards, by John Stahl, Esq. Widespread confusion regarding the difference between medical causation and legal causation, and why one claim of compensable harm may be accepted while a virtually identical claim or other seemingly "clear cut" case is denied, motivated a November 8 session entitled "Causation: Medical Versus Legal Impairment and Mental Trauma" at the 21st Annual National Workers' Compensation and Disability Conference. Matt Schiff, Esq., of the law firm Schiff and Hulbert, Chicago, IL, moderated the session. The panel consisted of defense attorney Stuart Colburn, Esq., from Downs Stanford, Austin, TX, applicant's attorney Robert Rassp, Esq., Sherman Oaks, CA, and Larson's Workers' Compensation Law staff writer Thomas Robinson, J.D. from Durham, NC. Read more.
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 Mother of Injured Worker Dies From Stress Related to Comp Claim, by Thomas A. Robinson. An Indiana appellate court recently reversed a trial court's decision that refused to grant summary judgment to a workers' compensation carrier and a case worker who had been sued by the surviving spouse/personal representative of a woman whose death, claimed the spouse, was caused by their allegedly "extreme and outrageous conduct" in handling a workers' compensation claim related to the couple's adult son. Read more about this exclusive remedy case & other cases on fraud, forfeiture, and extraordinary and unusual.
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Causation and Effect
Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter: Injured Worker Used Wife's Social Security Number To Hide Out-Of-State Jobs. 
They've Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot...a Delaware Primer on the Premises Rule, by Cassandra Roberts, Esq. 
Missouri: Court Dilutes Claimant's Drug Cocktail, by Martin Klug, Esq. 
