By Douglas W. Gott Chief Administrative Law Judge Kentucky Department of Workers’ Claims I. Overview of MSAs. Congress established the Medicare program in 1965 to pay medical expenses for the elderly and disabled. It paid those expenses without regard to whether the treatment was also covered by an employer group health plan. Congress […]
By Steven A. Minicucci Administrative/Association Judge Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Court The impact of the fire was far-reaching including the horrific deaths, debilitating, and disfiguring injuries, the political and criminal fallout in diminutive Rhode Island which was likened in court to the state’s own version of a 9/11 tragedy. In the aftermath of the […]
By Thomas Wyatt Judge, Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Chattanooga, TN SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT A poll of lawyers and judges would certainly find overwhelming support for rules of evidence. Some would say these rules promote orderly trials and decisions based on reliable documents and testimony. Others would point out that evidentiary rules keep […]
By Thomas A. Robinson Copyright 2023. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. As I have noted early each January for many, many years now, prior to the death of my mentor and friend, Dr. Arthur Larson, the original author of the oft-cited Larson treatises in workers’ compensation law (and in employment discrimination law, as […]
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