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An Overview of New Jersey Workers' Compensation
An Overview of Massachusetts Workers' Compensation
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An Overview of New York Workers' Compensation
Workers' Compensation Academy: Pennsylvania COVID-19 Update: Layoff or Furlough from Light Duty as a Result of COVID-19
West Conshohocken Borough v. David Markland (WCAB); No. 1382 C.D. 2022; filed Jan. 2, 2025 - This case involved a Claim Petition filed based on an occupational disease. The claimant worked as a firefighter and filed an Act 46...more
This month, the Ohio Supreme Court altered the landscape of more than 25 years of workers’ compensation legal precedent in an employer-friendly decision concerning termination of Temporary Total Disability compensation....more
Chartwell Law's Adam T. Devine, Esq. and Jason D. Lewis, Esq. present this informative webinar addressing the fundamentals of New York workers’ compensation and cover: • The claims process including initiation of a claim and...more
Employers and workers’ compensation insurers face a potentially huge number of claims for coverage by employees sickened with the coronavirus. State workers' compensation statutes, however, will erect significant evidentiary...more
...In this edition of SuperVision, Chelsea Thompson explores new developments from the National Labor Relations Board regarding handbook policies and whether or not they comply with the National Labor Relations Act. Sarah...more
The Commonwealth Court issued several interesting “unreported memorandum opinions” in the past several weeks. ...more
Companies providing services on U.S. military bases overseas are probably familiar with the Defense Base Act (DBA), a comprehensive federal workers’ compensation scheme providing medical and income benefits to injured...more
Prior to June 20, 2017, a powerful tool was available to employers and workers’ compensation carriers to cap exposure on long term workers’ compensation claims. That tool, provided by the Act 44 amendments in 1996, was...more
Since its launch earlier this month, the Pokémon GO app has become the #1 downloaded app and the most searched term on Google. With as many as 25 million users in the U.S. alone, it has become a bigger distraction than...more