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misclassification |
Misclassifying Employees Extends Beyond Making Employees Independent Contractors: Experts Explain High Cost of Employment Fraud, by John Stahl, Esq. A November 8 session entitled "Employee or Independent Contractor? The Impact of Misclassification" at the 21st Annual National Workers' Compensation & Disability Conference discussed the forms of this fraud and efforts to combat it. 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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Larson's on CAUSATION |
Alcohol and Drug Use Did Not Break Chain of Causation, by Thomas A. Robinson. A Washington appellate court recently affirmed an award of survivor benefits to the widow of a decedent who died several years after his industrial injury after accidentally ingesting multiple prescription medications-used to treat pain resulting from his injury-simultaneously with alcohol. Read more about this case and other cases on Total Permanent Disability, Viagra, and Substantially Certain. |
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new york reforms |
Employers and Labor Debate Impact of 2007 NY Reforms: Employers Advocate New Initiatives While Workers Claim Success, by John Stahl, Esq. Two analyses regarding the effectiveness of the 2007 Workers' Compensation Reform Law (Reforms) in New York State provide a textbook example of how identical statistics can support totally conflicting results. One undisputed conclusion is that the voices of New York employers were adequately loud regarding workers' compensation costs to enact the Reforms. The answer of the Public Policy Institute of New York State, Inc., (PPI) to whether those employers are better off today than they were when the Reforms were enacted five years ago is no. PPI, which is associated with the Business Council of New York State, concludes that the situation is now worse regarding several workers' compensation components. Conversely, the New York Workers' Compensation Alliance (Alliance) states...Read more. |
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