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Workers Comp Matters — 169 episodes

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Way Down South: Every State Is Different. The View From Alabama.

2

Workplace and Joint Replacement: What’s On-The-Job and What’s Just Aging?

3

Challenging the Way We Think About “Exclusive Remedy”.

4

Collateral Damage: The Federal Workers’ Injury Comp Risk in a Government Shutdown

5

Exploding Glue and Mermaid Dresses: When Workers’ Comp Gets Weird

6

Leveraging Tech and AI (With a Compassion) in Workers’ Comp Management

7

The “Magellans” Navigating Workers’ Comp Care: Nursing Case Managers

8

Workplace Mental Health: Employee/Employer Perspectives Can Differ.

9

“Many ills may strike, but one must answer.” Medical Causation Standards in Workers' Compensation Claims

10

Workers’ Comp, Politics, and the Economy: A Concerning Mix

11

A Teacher Injured in a School Shooting: When Is the School Responsible?

12

When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: The Impact of Heat on Workplace Injuries

13

First Responders and Workers’ Comp, Understanding Workplace Injuries and PTSD

14

Exclusive Remedy: The “Great Bargain” (and the Exceptions)

15

When Undocumented Immigrants Are Hurt at Work

16

More “Strange but True” Workers’ Comp Cases (and What They Teach Us)

17

Sprain? Strain? Subluxation? Medical Insights That Can Help Attorneys.

18

Enhancing Your Argument With Storytelling

19

AI May Be Big, But Nothing Replaces People In Workers’ Comp Claims

20

Brain Strain: Workplace Psychological Injury Compensation

21

New Study Asks if Having a Lawyer Boosts Workers Comp Payments

22

VA Disability Claims: An Often Overlooked Benefit Source

23

50 Years In Workers’ Comp: Alan Pierce’s Observations and Reflections

24

Using AI To Help Both Sides, Adjusters And Injured Workers

25

A New Approach to Workers’ Comp: Being Nice?

26

Alternative Medicine and Workers’ Comp Coverage: A Puzzle.

27

New Insights: How A Worker’s Mental State Influences Injury Recovery

28

The “Multi-Tentacled Monster:” Repetitive Stress Claims

29

Think You Know Workers’ Comp? The Times, They Are A Changing!

30

When Things Get Weird, Volume 2: Unusual Cases of Workers’ Comp

31

Fighting The “HIPAA Police,” Accessing Your Client’s Medical Records

32

Long COVID And Workers’ Comp, A Deep Dive Into A Real Issue

33

What Is A Workplace Injury When Your Home Is Your Workplace?

34

How A New Documentary Movie, “Americonned,” Relates To Workers’ Comp

35

“For Every Wrong, A Remedy?” When A Workplace Event Harms A Family

36

The “F-Word” In Workers’ Comp: Fraud. Not Always The Employer?

37

Support That Goes Beyond Lawyers and Doctors: Kind Souls Foundation Lends An Ear

38

Medical Marijuana, Your Client, And Who Pays

39

When A Worker Is Injured, So Is The Family: Helping Children Move Forward.

40

Back To School: Learning To Focus On “Recovery,” Not “Claims”

41

Settle Down: How Settlements Work in Workers’ Comp Cases

42

Urgent Need: Serving First Responders With PTSD

43

When Things Get Weird: Fascinating Cases, Different Jurisdictions

44

Longshoremen and Workers’ Comp Act — Coverage, Benefits and Compensation

45

Embrace Your Inner Matlock: “Acting” In The Courtroom

46

A Playbook for Tackling Workers’ Comp in Professional Sports

47

Workers’ Comp Medical Fee Schedules: What You Need To Know

48

Has the “Great Bargain” Worked? Well … It’s Complicated

49

50 Years After a Review of Workplace Protections, Time for Another Look?

50

Workers’ Comp and COVID: An American Failure

51

Immigrant Workers and Their Rights, Documented or Not

52

Rebuttable Presumption of Intoxication: Workers’ Comp and Marijuana

53

Workers’ Comp Attorneys, Protecting Our Rights

54

Revisiting the History of Workers’ Compensation with John F. Burton, Jr.

55

All Aboard: Maritime and Defense Base Claims

56

“Do The Right Thing,” A 9/11 Hero To The End

57

“Law’s Finest Hour,” Tort Lawyers and 9/11

58

“A Patriotic Obligation”: Kenneth Feinberg and the 9/11 Fund

59

WWE Smackdown- Are Professional Wrestlers Employees?

60

The “Going and Coming” Rule and the “Level Floor” Doctrine

61

Who Pays When Company Outings Lead to Injury?

62

Extraordinary Courage in the Face of Injustice

63

How Voc Rehab Helps Injured Workers Recover on the Job Front

64

Presumptions in the Age of Covid-19

65

The Future of Work: Utopia or Dystopia?

66

The Year that Was in Workers Comp

67

Want to Improve Performance? Take a Break

68

Up in the Air: When Uniforms are Toxic

69

Legislative Primer: What Lawyers Can Do to Push for Worker-Friendly Laws

70

Are Foreign Governments Responsible for Worker Safety in the US?

71

Medical Marijuana Reimbursement in Workers’ Compensation Systems

72

QCARE Designation: What it Means for Texas Injury Benefit Programs

73

Impacts of COVID-19 on Workers’ Compensation

74

How Inspiring Others Makes You a Better Lawyer

75

Workers’ Comp Clients: When to Seek Counsel

76

Defining Employment Relationships in the Gig Economy–Can It Be Done?

77

Pooled Special Needs Trusts: Low-Cost Asset Management for Injured Workers

78

Peter Rousmaniere: Reflections from a Career in Workers’ Comp

79

Examining State Variations in Opioid Dispensation with WCRI’s Dr. Vennela Thumula

80

Health Insurance and Outcomes of Injured Workers

81

The Evolution of Workers’ Compensation with Alan Pierce

82

Putting Workers Comp Policies Under the Microscope

83

Drug Formularies in Workers’ Comp—Good for Injured Workers?

84

Subrogation and Workers’ Compensation Liens on Third Party Settlements.

85

Wage Theft: From Investigation to Resolution

86

History of Workers’ Compensation with John F. Burton, Jr.

87

How Millennials and Work Remotes are Impacting Workers' Comp

88

Nursing The Wound: The Law and Ethics of Disability Management in Workers Compensation

89

Controversy Over the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition

90

The Attorney's Role in Workers Compensation

91

Opioid Alternative Treatment Pathway

92

Are Student Athletes Eligible for Workers Comp?

93

Changes to Workers Comp Coverage in the Political Climate

94

Technology's Impact on the Future of the Labor Force

95

Dealing with Chronic Pain in the Workplace

96

Does Workers' Compensation Cover Hate Crimes in the Workplace?

97

New York Workers’ Compensation Changes in 2017

98

Workers Comp Claims in Professional Sports

99

Social Security Disability Claims

100

Workers’ Compensation for Performing Artists

101

The Fact-Driven Complexities of Personal Comfort Doctrine

102

Constitutional Challenges to State Workers’ Compensation Laws

103

How the Pawlosky Case Redefined Workplace Injury

104

Third Party Liability Waivers

105

How Frances Perkins Impacted Workers’ Compensation

106

National Implications of Opt Out in Workers’ Compensation (Rebroadcast)

107

Are Workers’ Comp Benefits Adequate?

108

How the Trump Administration will Affect Workers’ Compensation

109

Workers’ Comp from the Other Side: Pain Management (Rebroadcast)

110

Workers’ Comp from the Other Side: Pain Management (Rebroadcast)

111

Alternative Benefit Systems and the Future of Workers’ Compensation

112

Using Neuroplasticity to Manage Chronic Pain

113

Workers’ Comp from the Other Side: Pain Management

114

The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions

115

National Implications of Opt Out in Workers’ Compensation

116

What Stahl v. Hialeah Hospital Means for Florida’s Workers’ Compensation Laws

117

Section 28 of the MA Workers’ Comp Statute: Serious and Willful Employer Misconduct

118

2015 Workers’ Compensation Research Institute Conference: Perverse Effects of Low Fee Schedules

119

2015 Workers Compensation Research Institute Conference: Cost and Impacts of Physician Dispensing Drugs

120

Chronic Pain, Opioid Addiction, and Injured Workers

121

FECA and Workers Compensation for Federal Employees

122

Black Lung Disease: Coal Miners, Their Disability, and The Quantum of Proof

123

Overtime and the Fair Labor Standards Act

124

Has Workers Compensation Become Unconstitutional?

125

Offsets and Overlaps in Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability Claims

126

The Federal Laws that Affect Workers Compensation Claims

127

Employer Fraud and Recommendations from New York State Supreme Court’s Grand Jury Report

128

Medical Marijuana at Work: The Side Effects for Workers’ Compensation

129

WILG, MBA, and Attorney Generals: Meet the Lawyers Keeping the Workplace Safe

130

Medical Treatment Guidelines for Injured Workers

131

Mediation in Workers’ Compensation Cases

132

Handling and Preventing Shoulder Injuries

133

Workers’ Compensation for Harbor Workers and Longshoremen

134

Chat with Two National Leaders of the Workers' Comp Bar

135

Improving the Quality of Care for Injured Workers

136

The National Association of Workers’ Compensation Judiciary

137

Celebrating 100 Years of Workers’ Compensation

138

Privacy, Clients and Social Media

139

Raytheon’s Integrated Disability Program

140

Fraud & Symptom Magnification in Workers Compensation

141

The History of Workers’ Compensation & the Workers’ Compensation Centennial 2011

142

The Intoxication Defense

143

Workers' Compensation Surveillance

144

The Occupational Disease Pilot Program & Healthcare

145

Workers' Compensation in the Immigrant Community

146

A Look Inside the Workers' Compensation System

147

Dissecting Fraud

148

The Independent Medical Evaluation (IME)

149

MSA Update for Workers Comp Cases

150

Cardiac Injury Claims

151

Workers Comp & the AMA Guides 6th Edition

152

Workers Comp National Trends & Issues

153

Workers Compensation Post 911

154

What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Federal Worker Compensation

155

Disability Prevention vs. Disability Management

156

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive Stress Injuries

157

Back Injuries and Treatments in the Workers Comp Setting

158

Evidence in the Complex Workers Comp Case

159

Special Edition of Workers Comp Matters

160

Psychiatric Disability

161

Defending Complex Workers Comp Cases

162

Social Security Disability

163

Kids Chance

164

Representing Undocumented Workers

165

Medicare Set-Aside Allocations

166

Latex Allergies In The Workplace

167

Ethical Issues

168

Sports Injuries

169

Sick Building Syndrome