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Workers Comp Matters — 165 episodes

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

2

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

3

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

4

Workplace Mental Health: Employee/Employer Perspectives Can Differ.

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

When Undocumented Immigrants Are Hurt at Work

12

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

13

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

14

Enhancing Your Argument With Storytelling

15

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

16

Brain Strain: Workplace Psychological Injury Compensation

17

New Study Asks if Having a Lawyer Boosts Workers Comp Payments

18

VA Disability Claims: An Often Overlooked Benefit Source

19

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

20

Using AI To Help Both Sides, Adjusters And Injured Workers

21

A New Approach to Workers’ Comp: Being Nice?

22

Alternative Medicine and Workers’ Comp Coverage: A Puzzle.

23

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

24

The “Multi-Tentacled Monster:” Repetitive Stress Claims

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

Medical Marijuana, Your Client, And Who Pays

35

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

36

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

37

Settle Down: How Settlements Work in Workers’ Comp Cases

38

Urgent Need: Serving First Responders With PTSD

39

When Things Get Weird: Fascinating Cases, Different Jurisdictions

40

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

41

Embrace Your Inner Matlock: “Acting” In The Courtroom

42

A Playbook for Tackling Workers’ Comp in Professional Sports

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

Workers’ Comp and COVID: An American Failure

47

Immigrant Workers and Their Rights, Documented or Not

48

Rebuttable Presumption of Intoxication: Workers’ Comp and Marijuana

49

Workers’ Comp Attorneys, Protecting Our Rights

50

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

51

All Aboard: Maritime and Defense Base Claims

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

WWE Smackdown- Are Professional Wrestlers Employees?

56

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

57

Workers Comp Matters : Who Pays When Company Outings Lead to Injury?

58

Workers Comp Matters : Extraordinary Courage in the Face of Injustice

59

Workers Comp Matters : How Voc Rehab Helps Injured Workers Recover on the Job Front

60

Presumptions in the Age of Covid-19

61

The Future of Work: Utopia or Dystopia?

62

The Year that Was in Workers Comp

63

Want to Improve Performance? Take a Break

64

Up in the Air: When Uniforms are Toxic

65

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

66

Are Foreign Governments Responsible for Worker Safety in the US?

67

Medical Marijuana Reimbursement in Workers’ Compensation Systems

68

QCARE Designation: What it Means for Texas Injury Benefit Programs

69

Impacts of COVID-19 on Workers’ Compensation

70

How Inspiring Others Makes You a Better Lawyer

71

Workers’ Comp Clients: When to Seek Counsel

72

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

73

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

74

Peter Rousmaniere: Reflections from a Career in Workers’ Comp

75

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

76

Health Insurance and Outcomes of Injured Workers

77

The Evolution of Workers’ Compensation with Alan Pierce

78

Putting Workers Comp Policies Under the Microscope

79

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

80

Subrogation and Workers’ Compensation Liens on Third Party Settlements.

81

Wage Theft: From Investigation to Resolution

82

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

83

How Millennials and Work Remotes are Impacting Workers' Comp

84

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

85

Controversy Over the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition

86

The Attorney's Role in Workers Compensation

87

Opioid Alternative Treatment Pathway

88

Are Student Athletes Eligible for Workers Comp?

89

Changes to Workers Comp Coverage in the Political Climate

90

Technology's Impact on the Future of the Labor Force

91

Dealing with Chronic Pain in the Workplace

92

Does Workers' Compensation Cover Hate Crimes in the Workplace?

93

New York Workers’ Compensation Changes in 2017

94

Workers Comp Claims in Professional Sports

95

Social Security Disability Claims

96

Workers’ Compensation for Performing Artists

97

The Fact-Driven Complexities of Personal Comfort Doctrine

98

Constitutional Challenges to State Workers’ Compensation Laws

99

How the Pawlosky Case Redefined Workplace Injury

100

Third Party Liability Waivers

101

How Frances Perkins Impacted Workers’ Compensation

102

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

103

Are Workers’ Comp Benefits Adequate?

104

How the Trump Administration will Affect Workers’ Compensation

105

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

106

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

107

Alternative Benefit Systems and the Future of Workers’ Compensation

108

Using Neuroplasticity to Manage Chronic Pain

109

Workers’ Comp from the Other Side: Pain Management

110

The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions

111

National Implications of Opt Out in Workers’ Compensation

112

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

113

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

114

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

115

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

116

Chronic Pain, Opioid Addiction, and Injured Workers

117

FECA and Workers Compensation for Federal Employees

118

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

119

Overtime and the Fair Labor Standards Act

120

Has Workers Compensation Become Unconstitutional?

121

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

122

The Federal Laws that Affect Workers Compensation Claims

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

Medical Treatment Guidelines for Injured Workers

127

Mediation in Workers’ Compensation Cases

128

Handling and Preventing Shoulder Injuries

129

Workers’ Compensation for Harbor Workers and Longshoremen

130

Chat with Two National Leaders of the Workers' Comp Bar

131

Improving the Quality of Care for Injured Workers

132

The National Association of Workers’ Compensation Judiciary

133

Celebrating 100 Years of Workers’ Compensation

134

Privacy, Clients and Social Media

135

Raytheon’s Integrated Disability Program

136

Fraud & Symptom Magnification in Workers Compensation

137

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

138

The Intoxication Defense

139

Workers' Compensation Surveillance

140

The Occupational Disease Pilot Program & Healthcare

141

Workers' Compensation in the Immigrant Community

142

A Look Inside the Workers' Compensation System

143

Dissecting Fraud

144

The Independent Medical Evaluation (IME)

145

MSA Update for Workers Comp Cases

146

Cardiac Injury Claims

147

Workers Comp & the AMA Guides 6th Edition

148

Workers Comp National Trends & Issues

149

Workers Compensation Post 911

150

What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Federal Worker Compensation

151

Disability Prevention vs. Disability Management

152

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive Stress Injuries

153

Back Injuries and Treatments in the Workers Comp Setting

154

Evidence in the Complex Workers Comp Case

155

Special Edition of Workers Comp Matters

156

Psychiatric Disability

157

Defending Complex Workers Comp Cases

158

Social Security Disability

159

Kids Chance

160

Representing Undocumented Workers

161

Medicare Set-Aside Allocations

162

Latex Allergies In The Workplace

163

Ethical Issues

164

Sports Injuries

165

Sick Building Syndrome