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Likely due to the pandemic, I have come across quite a few situations lately where an injured employee was working for multiple employers at the time of the industrial accident.  Workers Comp dual employment situations […]

Have you ever thought about whether you could live on your state’s temporary total disability (TTD) benefits if you had a workers’ compensation injury?  It’s a scary thought.    The benefits in most states have formulas […]

Late last year, after my second knee replacement surgery, I wrote about my early experiences with the Plethy Recupe© system. Plethy Recupe provides “easy to follow personalized at-home care programs for all musculoskeletal conditions with recovery metrics.” Recupe […]

When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released version 3.5 of the WCMSA reference guide on January 11, 2022, it redefined the potential risk and settlement considerations when non-CMS approved allocations are used […]

The Honorable Maria Del Valle-Koch will be the New Chief Judge and Director effective Monday, June 6, 2022. Outgoing Chief Judge and Director Russell Wojenko, Jr. announced Friday that Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner of NJ Labor […]

The Eleventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals recently rendered an interesting 42-page opinion in Speech First, Inc. v. Alexander Cartwright and Dana Juntenen, No. 21-12583 (May 2, 2022). Mr. Cartwright is President of the University […]

As rising drug prices continue to make headlines, there are certain conceptions about the pharmaceutical market that can benefit from clarification. When discussing the growing cost of drugs, we tend to frame the topic around […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that beginning June 4, 2022, it will use the new 2019 CDC Life Table to calculate adjusted life expectancies in Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Asides (WCMSAs). […]