The First Report
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Summer 2024
- Are You in or Out? An Overview of Ingress/Egress Injuries
Authored by Caley Pitts - The Defense Is in the Details: State Board Forms
Authored by Melissa Rickert - Time Is of the Essence – Workers’ Compensation Appeals and New Procedure for Appeals to Superior Court
Authored by Sarah Snipes
Spring 2024
- Mind Matters: Mental Competency Considerations in Alabama Workers’ Compensation Settlements
Authored by Carson Campbell - Panel of Physicians in Georgia Workers’ Compensation
Authored by Sarah Luna - Easy as “1, 2, 3” to Use the PMT(b)
Authored by Sara Phillips
Fall 2023
- Compensable or Not? Heart Attacks, Strokes and Similar Work Injury Claims in Alabama
Authored by Trey Dowdey - “Til Death Do Us Part”: Dependency Death Benefits After House Bill 480
Authored by Sarah Snipes - Return to Work Strategies for Undocumented Immigrants Under Martines v. Worley & Sons Construction
Authored by Andy Jarrett
Summer 2023
- Alabama Workers’ Compensation Goes Digital: What You Need to Know About EDI
Authored by Carson Campbell - In-Person Depositions in a Zoom World
Authored by Akash Patel - Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: 2023 Georgia Workers’ Compensation Updates
Authored by Jeff Stinson
Spring 2023
- Navigating the Thin Line Between the Deviation Rule and the Personal Comfort Doctrine
Authored by Maya Marshall - What Do You Tell Ol’ McDonald About His Accountant?
Authored by Brennan McElhone - How Aggravating! My Claimant Was Already Hurt, So Why Should I Have to Pay?
Authored by Ann McElroy
Winter 2022
- Navigating the Game of Workers’ Compensation: Strategies for the Employer/Insurer to Implement in Accepted Claims Against Claimant’s Not Complying with Medical Treatment
Authored by Jordan Brown - Navigating the Fun House of Defending Workplace Violence Claims
Authored by Trey Dowdey - MSAs: What Are They and When Do You Need Them?
Authored by Sarah Luna - Growing Danger for Failure to Address Conditional Payments in Private Insurance Plans
Authored by Jeff Stinson
Summer 2022
- Is COVID-19 a Compensable Workers' Compensation Claim in Alabama?
Authored by Carson Campbell - Is This Within Your Capacity? Determining a Claimant’s Entitlement to Temporary Partial Disability Benefits
Authored by Joanna Hair - I’ve Got 99 Problems, but a Hernia Ain’t One
Authored by Sara Phillips
Spring 2022
- COVID-19 Compensability Update: Board Denies First Claim Litigated In Georgia
Authored by Jeff Stinson - The Claimant Has a Light Duty Work Release . . . Now What?
Authored by Ann McElroy - One-Times . . . They Are A-Changin': A Look at Hawkins and the Right to a One-Time Change of Physician
Authored by Christopher Beerman
Winter 2021
- Alabama “Emergency” Administrative Order to be Adopted Permanently
Authored by Amanda Cutshall Goozée - A Guide to Handling Referrals from the ATP
Authored by Ben McClure - Strategies for Positioning Your Difficult Claims for Closure
Authored by Blake Staten
Summer 2021
- Guidance Employers Covered by ADA and FMLA Should Consider Before Terminating an Injured Worker
Authored by Crystal McElrath - A Toast to Defending Intoxication Claims
Authored by Dustin Thompson - The Rycroft Defense and the Power of a Medical Questionnaire
Authored by Spenser West
Spring 2021
- Tick Tock Keep Your Eye on the Clock: Statute of Limitations Defense in Georgia Workers' Compensation Claims
Authored by Thea Nanton-Persaud - "You Down Wit' PPD?"
Authored by Joanna Hair - A Walk in the Park-ing Lot: A Simple Examination of Egress/Ingress
Authored by Emily Truitt
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