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 Experts Offer Guidance on Opioid Management Strategies, by John Stahl, Esq. The double-edged sword regarding using opioids to relieve pain associated with compensable harm is that the workers' compensation claimants benefit from the effects of feeling little or no pain and health-care practitioners value the profitable and quick-fix aspects of this treatment, but that practice has very serious negatives. The fact that the high costs to the health-care industry generally and workers' compensation specifically do not adequately enter into the equation has facilitated this opioid epid emic. Read more.
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 Intentional Tort for Grain Bin Death Barred by Exclusive Remedy, by Thomas A. Robinson, JD. Quoting Larson's Workers' Compensation Law, the Supreme Court of Nebraska recently affirmed a decision of a county district court that had dismissed a tort action filed against the defendant-employer by the estate of an employee who died of asphyxiation after being engulfed in grain inside a large grain bin, holding that the action was barred by the exclusive remedy provisions of the state's Workers' Compensation Act in spite of the fact that the defendant acknowledged it had willfully violated a number of OSHA regulations that resulted in the employee's death. Read more about this case and other cases on mental injury, traveling employee, and undocumented worker.
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Opioid Management Strategies
