President’s letter – September, 2020 Mississippi is home. But I am writing this letter to you from my daughter’s and son-in-law’s home in Washington, D.C. I am here awaiting the imminent debut of my granddaughter, my first grandchild! I cannot go to the hospital with my daughter because health and safety protocols prohibit all visitors […]
By Deborah Wood Blevins Managing Deputy Commissioner of the Virginia Workers Compensation Commission Alternative Dispute Resolution Department Richmond, VA In January 2020 the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) published a comparative study of dispute resolution systems in workers compensation agencies in six states. Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Kansas, Oregon, and […]
By David B. Torrey WCJ, Pittsburgh, PA David Langham & Chris Mandel, American Workers’ Compensation – A Study in Disparities and the Expanded Use of Presumptions (Sedgwick Institute, July 2020), https://www.sedgwick.com/assets/uploads/documents/Sedgwick-Institute_Workers-Comp_7.8.20-1.pdf. In this important insurance industry white paper, the authors review the recent popularity of presumptions in workers’ compensation laws. They first provide a […]
By David B. Torrey WCJ Pittsburgh, PA UBERLAND: HOW ALGORITHMS ARE REWRITING THE RULES OF WORK by Alex Rosenblat University of California Press. 271 pp. 2018. I. The major issue for workers’ compensation, when it comes to Uber drivers and other “ride hail” workers, is whether they are, as Uber claims, independent contractors […]
By Judge Jennifer Hopens Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation Austin, TX Wanting to hear practical, useful tips from top-flight judicial instructors on conducting workers’ compensation proceedings in the new remote environment? Interested in learning about COVID-19 presumptions (which could be coming to your jurisdiction or a jurisdiction near you)? If so, […]
VOTING RESULTS ARE IN! Like most everything in 2020, the voting procedure for new officers and directors was changed to an electronic format. The members were notified, and had the opportunity to cast their vote through SurveyMonkey. Based on the results from the members who voted for the 2020 election, the following officers were […]
September 16 & 17, 2020 | Presented Virtually By James N. McConnaughhay, General Chairman, Workers’ Compensation Institute, Inc. Reprinted with permission from PropertyCasualty360, Sept. 1, 2020. © 2020 ALM Media Properties, LLC. Further duplication without permission is prohibited. All rights reserved. I recently reviewed an article in the Orlando Florida Business Journal describing a […]
The Honorable Frank McKay (GA) received the 2019 National Judge Comp Laude at the WorkCompCentral Awards Gala in Newport Beach, CA. Judge McKay was named to the Board of Advisors for the Workers’ Compensation Institute (WCI) in Orlando, Florida. Judge McKay is serving as the Immediate Past President of the Southern Association of Workers’ […]
Even in the Worst of Times WCI Supports Give Kids the World By James N. McConnaughhay, General Chairman, Workers’ Compensation Institute, Inc. Reprinted with permission from PropertyCasualty360, Sept. 1, 2020. © 2020 ALM Media Properties, LLC. Further duplication without permission is prohibited. All rights reserved. Having to postpone the Annual Workers’ Compensation Conference after […]