If you are an orthopedic physician an are having difficulty practicing orthopedic medicine, you should know you can make a huge mistake even before you stop working. Getting the right date of disability is cruicial before you file your orthopedic claim for long term disability benefits. You should immediately get a copy of your long […]

There are many stumbling rocks in the disability process. Before a medical professional considers filing a claim for disability benefits, there is help available. You have a difficult decision to make about whether and when to apply for disability benefits and how to you maintain your practice as you move through the disability process. Disability

Many employers will argue that its managers are exempt from overtime under the FLSA executive exemption which excludes over time for” any employee employee and a bona fide executive… capacity.” 29 USC Section 213 (a) (1). To “establish that an employee is a bona fide executive, an employer must show: (1) the employee is compensated

In theory, Workers’ Compensation is supposed to offer working Americans medical care and financial security in the event that they get hurt on the job. In reality, Workers’ Compensation has turned into a for-profit industry that is selling workers nothing more than a bill of goods. The end result is long delays, expenditure saving treatments

Let us say, for the sake of argument, that you are a construction worker. You go to the job site, clock in, and begin doing your job, just as you have every day since the building project began. Let us say, for the sake of argument, that due to the negligence of someone else on

The Florida Legislature attempted to limit your ability to find a workers compensation attorney by limiting the payment of attorneys fees to Florida workers’ compensation attorneys, like Nancy Cavey, when it rewrote the attorney fee provisions of 440.34 in the 2003 legislative session. Florida workers compensation attorneys, like Nancy Cavey, were paid attorneys fees if

TALLAHASSEE, FL (CompNewsNetwork) – —Investigators from the Department of Financial Services, Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Compliance, issued six Stop Work Orders (SWOs) during a surprise enforcement sweep last week of 39 contractor sites throughout Collier County. The SWOs were issued to contractors determined not to have workers’ compensation coverage for their employees. Dubbed Operation Check

A block buster case has expanded the reach of Florida First Responder Presumptions. In Butler v. City of Jacksonville, 33 Fla. L. Weekly T3 84 (January 31, 2008) firefighter Butler was diagnosed as having hypertension, which in turn, caused artheroscleorsis, which in turn, caused peripheral vascular disease (PVD). The First District held that because Mr.

Florida statute 440.192(8) requires the employer carrier to pay and investigate while determining the compensability of a case. In Rushing v. Sumter Correctional Institute, OJCC No. 06- 025674JEM, correctional officer rushing was employed by for County Sheriff’s office from 1993 until 2000. In July of 2000, he was hired by the State of Florida Department