Who Pays When Company Outings Lead to Injury?
As the fully vaccinated emerge and more and more offices welcome employees back in-person, employers may be looking for creative ways to rec...
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Workers Comp Matters
Catering to both lawyers and their clients, Workers’ Comp Matters focuses on people and the law. Host and workers’ compensation attorney Alan S. Pierce interviews industry leaders, lawyers,...
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Extraordinary Courage in the Face of Injustice
While researching the Manhattan Project, filmmaker Ginny Mohler stumbled on a little-told story of the young watch-dial painters in New Jers...
How Voc Rehab Helps Injured Workers Recover on the Job Front
Just like workers' compensation, states have varying approaches to vocational rehabilitation. Voc rehab expert Rhonda Jellenik and host Juds...
Presumptions in the Age of Covid-19
Teamster turned national workers' comp expert Michael Duff explains the presumption landscape that's rapidly developed over the last year du...
The Future of Work: Utopia or Dystopia?
Darrell West, an expert on artificial intelligence in the workplace, talks about the critical intersection America is facing and the public...
The Year that Was in Workers Comp
Sensational coverage and panic drove much of the early discussion and predictions about workers comp during the beginning of the pandemic. B...
Want to Improve Performance? Take a Break
Executive coach Jayme Purinton explains how modeling wellbeing from the top down can improve performance teamwide. Especially during times o...
Up in the Air: When Uniforms are Toxic
Delta Air Line's "Passport Plum" Lands' End uniforms designed by Zac Posen debuted with much fanfare only to be mired in litigation once fli...
Legislative Primer: What Lawyers Can Do to Push for Worker-Friendly Laws
Active in lobbying for worker-friendly laws, maritime lawyer Amie Peters is focused now on workers exposed to the most risk during the globa...
Are Foreign Governments Responsible for Worker Safety in the US?
As foreign governments do more business in the United States, questions about the intersection of sovereign immunity and U.S. law will undou...
Medical Marijuana Reimbursement in Workers' Compensation Systems
As a Schedule I controlled substance, marijuana is not permitted for medical usage at the federal level. However, variance in state laws and...
QCARE Designation: What it Means for Texas Injury Benefit Programs
Unique workers' compensation laws in Texas allow employers to choose whether they will subscribe to traditional workers' comp programs. As s...
Impacts of COVID-19 on Workers' Compensation
Can workers who contract COVID-19 seek workers' compensation benefits? There are many factors at play, and workers comp attorneys are facing...
How Inspiring Others Makes You a Better Lawyer
Can lawyers do better work if they approach it with a marketer's mindset? In this edition of Workers' Comp Matters, Judson Pierce fills in a...
Workers' Comp Clients: When to Seek Counsel
Workers who have suffered an injury on the job are stressed and dealing with uncertainty about how to navigate their workers' compensation s...
Defining Employment Relationships in the Gig Economy–Can It Be Done?
As we continue to shift further into gig economy employment, defining employee-employer relationships is increasingly challenging in the are...
Pooled Special Needs Trusts: Low-Cost Asset Management for Injured Workers
In instances of certain disabilities, injured workers may need assets from a workers' comp settlement to be managed by a trust with a third-...
Peter Rousmaniere: Reflections from a Career in Workers' Comp
In this edition of Workers' Comp Matters , host Alan Pierce welcomes Peter Rousmaniere to discuss his prolific career as a workers' comp con...
Examining State Variations in Opioid Dispensation with WCRI's Dr. Vennela Thumula
Efforts to track opioid dispensation across the nation show many state workers' compensation systems produce significantly varied data. What...
Health Insurance and Outcomes of Injured Workers
The landscape of health insurance has changed significantly in recent years, and some of these changes have created new challenges in worker...