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Workers Comp Matters — 167 episodes
Challenging the Way We Think About “Exclusive Remedy”.
Collateral Damage: The Federal Workers’ Injury Comp Risk in a Government Shutdown
Exploding Glue and Mermaid Dresses: When Workers’ Comp Gets Weird
Leveraging Tech and AI (With a Compassion) in Workers’ Comp Management
The “Magellans” Navigating Workers’ Comp Care: Nursing Case Managers
Workplace Mental Health: Employee/Employer Perspectives Can Differ.
“Many ills may strike, but one must answer.” Medical Causation Standards in Workers' Compensation Claims
Workers’ Comp, Politics, and the Economy: A Concerning Mix
A Teacher Injured in a School Shooting: When Is the School Responsible?
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: The Impact of Heat on Workplace Injuries
First Responders and Workers’ Comp, Understanding Workplace Injuries and PTSD
Exclusive Remedy: The “Great Bargain” (and the Exceptions)
When Undocumented Immigrants Are Hurt at Work
More “Strange but True” Workers’ Comp Cases (and What They Teach Us)
Sprain? Strain? Subluxation? Medical Insights That Can Help Attorneys.
Enhancing Your Argument With Storytelling
AI May Be Big, But Nothing Replaces People In Workers’ Comp Claims
Brain Strain: Workplace Psychological Injury Compensation
New Study Asks if Having a Lawyer Boosts Workers Comp Payments
VA Disability Claims: An Often Overlooked Benefit Source
50 Years In Workers’ Comp: Alan Pierce’s Observations and Reflections
Using AI To Help Both Sides, Adjusters And Injured Workers
A New Approach to Workers’ Comp: Being Nice?
Alternative Medicine and Workers’ Comp Coverage: A Puzzle.
New Insights: How A Worker’s Mental State Influences Injury Recovery
The “Multi-Tentacled Monster:” Repetitive Stress Claims
Think You Know Workers’ Comp? The Times, They Are A Changing!
When Things Get Weird, Volume 2: Unusual Cases of Workers’ Comp
Fighting The “HIPAA Police,” Accessing Your Client’s Medical Records
Long COVID And Workers’ Comp, A Deep Dive Into A Real Issue
What Is A Workplace Injury When Your Home Is Your Workplace?
How A New Documentary Movie, “Americonned,” Relates To Workers’ Comp
“For Every Wrong, A Remedy?” When A Workplace Event Harms A Family
The “F-Word” In Workers’ Comp: Fraud. Not Always The Employer?
Support That Goes Beyond Lawyers and Doctors: Kind Souls Foundation Lends An Ear
Medical Marijuana, Your Client, And Who Pays
When A Worker Is Injured, So Is The Family: Helping Children Move Forward.
Back To School: Learning To Focus On “Recovery,” Not “Claims”
Settle Down: How Settlements Work in Workers’ Comp Cases
Urgent Need: Serving First Responders With PTSD
When Things Get Weird: Fascinating Cases, Different Jurisdictions
Longshoremen and Workers’ Comp Act — Coverage, Benefits and Compensation
Embrace Your Inner Matlock: “Acting” In The Courtroom
A Playbook for Tackling Workers’ Comp in Professional Sports
Workers’ Comp Medical Fee Schedules: What You Need To Know
Has the “Great Bargain” Worked? Well … It’s Complicated
50 Years After a Review of Workplace Protections, Time for Another Look?
Workers’ Comp and COVID: An American Failure
Immigrant Workers and Their Rights, Documented or Not
Rebuttable Presumption of Intoxication: Workers’ Comp and Marijuana
Workers’ Comp Attorneys, Protecting Our Rights
Revisiting the History of Workers’ Compensation with John F. Burton, Jr.
All Aboard: Maritime and Defense Base Claims
“Do The Right Thing,” A 9/11 Hero To The End
“Law’s Finest Hour,” Tort Lawyers and 9/11
“A Patriotic Obligation”: Kenneth Feinberg and the 9/11 Fund
WWE Smackdown- Are Professional Wrestlers Employees?
The “Going and Coming” Rule and the “Level Floor” Doctrine
Workers Comp Matters : Who Pays When Company Outings Lead to Injury?
Workers Comp Matters : Extraordinary Courage in the Face of Injustice
Workers Comp Matters : How Voc Rehab Helps Injured Workers Recover on the Job Front
Presumptions in the Age of Covid-19
The Future of Work: Utopia or Dystopia?
The Year that Was in Workers Comp
Want to Improve Performance? Take a Break
Up in the Air: When Uniforms are Toxic
Legislative Primer: What Lawyers Can Do to Push for Worker-Friendly Laws
Are Foreign Governments Responsible for Worker Safety in the US?
Medical Marijuana Reimbursement in Workers’ Compensation Systems
QCARE Designation: What it Means for Texas Injury Benefit Programs
Impacts of COVID-19 on Workers’ Compensation
How Inspiring Others Makes You a Better Lawyer
Workers’ Comp Clients: When to Seek Counsel
Defining Employment Relationships in the Gig Economy–Can It Be Done?
Pooled Special Needs Trusts: Low-Cost Asset Management for Injured Workers
Peter Rousmaniere: Reflections from a Career in Workers’ Comp
Examining State Variations in Opioid Dispensation with WCRI’s Dr. Vennela Thumula
Health Insurance and Outcomes of Injured Workers
The Evolution of Workers’ Compensation with Alan Pierce
Putting Workers Comp Policies Under the Microscope
Drug Formularies in Workers’ Comp—Good for Injured Workers?
Subrogation and Workers’ Compensation Liens on Third Party Settlements.
Wage Theft: From Investigation to Resolution
History of Workers’ Compensation with John F. Burton, Jr.
How Millennials and Work Remotes are Impacting Workers' Comp
Nursing The Wound: The Law and Ethics of Disability Management in Workers Compensation
Controversy Over the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition
The Attorney's Role in Workers Compensation
Opioid Alternative Treatment Pathway
Are Student Athletes Eligible for Workers Comp?
Changes to Workers Comp Coverage in the Political Climate
Technology's Impact on the Future of the Labor Force
Dealing with Chronic Pain in the Workplace
Does Workers' Compensation Cover Hate Crimes in the Workplace?
New York Workers’ Compensation Changes in 2017
Workers Comp Claims in Professional Sports
Social Security Disability Claims
Workers’ Compensation for Performing Artists
The Fact-Driven Complexities of Personal Comfort Doctrine
Constitutional Challenges to State Workers’ Compensation Laws
How the Pawlosky Case Redefined Workplace Injury
Third Party Liability Waivers
How Frances Perkins Impacted Workers’ Compensation
National Implications of Opt Out in Workers’ Compensation (Rebroadcast)
Are Workers’ Comp Benefits Adequate?
How the Trump Administration will Affect Workers’ Compensation
Workers’ Comp from the Other Side: Pain Management (Rebroadcast)
Workers’ Comp from the Other Side: Pain Management (Rebroadcast)
Alternative Benefit Systems and the Future of Workers’ Compensation
Using Neuroplasticity to Manage Chronic Pain
Workers’ Comp from the Other Side: Pain Management
The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions
National Implications of Opt Out in Workers’ Compensation
What Stahl v. Hialeah Hospital Means for Florida’s Workers’ Compensation Laws
Section 28 of the MA Workers’ Comp Statute: Serious and Willful Employer Misconduct
2015 Workers’ Compensation Research Institute Conference: Perverse Effects of Low Fee Schedules
2015 Workers Compensation Research Institute Conference: Cost and Impacts of Physician Dispensing Drugs
Chronic Pain, Opioid Addiction, and Injured Workers
FECA and Workers Compensation for Federal Employees
Black Lung Disease: Coal Miners, Their Disability, and The Quantum of Proof
Overtime and the Fair Labor Standards Act
Has Workers Compensation Become Unconstitutional?
Offsets and Overlaps in Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability Claims
The Federal Laws that Affect Workers Compensation Claims
Employer Fraud and Recommendations from New York State Supreme Court’s Grand Jury Report
Medical Marijuana at Work: The Side Effects for Workers’ Compensation
WILG, MBA, and Attorney Generals: Meet the Lawyers Keeping the Workplace Safe
Medical Treatment Guidelines for Injured Workers
Mediation in Workers’ Compensation Cases
Handling and Preventing Shoulder Injuries
Workers’ Compensation for Harbor Workers and Longshoremen
Chat with Two National Leaders of the Workers' Comp Bar
Improving the Quality of Care for Injured Workers
The National Association of Workers’ Compensation Judiciary
Celebrating 100 Years of Workers’ Compensation
Privacy, Clients and Social Media
Raytheon’s Integrated Disability Program
Fraud & Symptom Magnification in Workers Compensation
The History of Workers’ Compensation & the Workers’ Compensation Centennial 2011
The Intoxication Defense
Workers' Compensation Surveillance
The Occupational Disease Pilot Program & Healthcare
Workers' Compensation in the Immigrant Community
A Look Inside the Workers' Compensation System
Dissecting Fraud
The Independent Medical Evaluation (IME)
MSA Update for Workers Comp Cases
Cardiac Injury Claims
Workers Comp & the AMA Guides 6th Edition
Workers Comp National Trends & Issues
Workers Compensation Post 911
What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Federal Worker Compensation
Disability Prevention vs. Disability Management
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive Stress Injuries
Back Injuries and Treatments in the Workers Comp Setting
Evidence in the Complex Workers Comp Case
Special Edition of Workers Comp Matters
Psychiatric Disability
Defending Complex Workers Comp Cases
Social Security Disability
Kids Chance
Representing Undocumented Workers
Medicare Set-Aside Allocations
Latex Allergies In The Workplace
Ethical Issues
Sports Injuries
Sick Building Syndrome