Workers' Compensation

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Evidence of Bias in Workers’ Compensation Awards
Posted on 26 Oct 2012 by John Stahl

Study Shows Whites Receive Higher Benefits Than Other Groups for Comparable Harm Despite the basic workers’ compensation principle that every claimant should receive equal medical and wage-loss benefits for the same type of compensable injury... Read More

Mississippi: Commission Was Wrong to Sanction Claimant's Attorney for Subpoena Issued to Employer's Medical Expert
Posted on 26 Jan 2018 by Thomas A. Robinson

A Mississippi appellate court reversed a decision of the state’s Workers' Compensation Commission that had sanctioned a claimant’s attorney for issuing a subpoena duces tecum to the employer’s medical expert in which the attorney... Read More

How to Utilize a Medical Expert and Effectively Present Causation Opinions
Posted on 17 Feb 2017 by Stuart D. Colburn

The seminal causation paper will never be written. This fact provides the author at least some comfort as this paper briefly wades into the agenda-driven minefield of causation in a workers’ compensation claim. Causation, like beauty, is often... Read More

Evidence of Bias in Workers’ Compensation Awards
Posted on 26 Oct 2012 by John Stahl

Study Shows Whites Receive Higher Benefits Than Other Groups for Comparable Harm Despite the basic workers’ compensation principle that every claimant should receive equal medical and wage-loss benefits for the same type of compensable injury... Read More