The Chartwell Chronicles: New Jersey Attorney Fees
The Chartwell Chronicles: New Jersey Caselaw Updates
What's the Tea in L&E? Injury or Disability: What's the Difference?
The Chartwell Chronicles: Understanding the Medicals
The Chartwell Chronicles: Florida Workers' Compensation
LFLM LAW with L.A.W - EPISODE 20 - Legal beginnings - A New Attorney’s Journey
The Chartwell Chronicles: FAQs & Hot Topics
The Chartwell Chronicles: Second Injury Fund
The Chartwell Chronicles: Release & Resignation
LFLM LAW with L.A.W - Are AMEs still the solution with Tanya Johnson, Attorney, San Francisco
Detecting Fraud in New Jersey Workers' Compensation
The Chartwell Chronicles: New Jersey Workers’ Comp Alert
LFLM LAW with L.A.W - Adjuster to Attorney
Risk Transfer, Employer Liability, and Grave Injuries: Who Is Going to Pay?
LFLM LAW with L.A.W - Remote Trials
The Chartwell Chronicles: Expanding Our Conversation
The Chartwell Chronicles: Medical Provider Claims
The Chartwell Chronicles: Total Temporary Disability
OSHA Recordkeeping Regulations: Understanding the Fine Print
It is that time of year again, when California Governor Gavin Newsom considers a number of bills that need to be signed by September 30, 2024, in order to take effect. Several of those bills would impact California employers,...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Expanding a law enacted in 2022, New York’s legislature passed another bill that seeks to limit warehouse-related injuries by requiring employers to establish and implement an injury reduction program,...more
It is time to take stock of where we are with potential new employment-related laws now that we have passed the first major deadline in California’s legislative calendar. May 24 marked the deadline for pending legislation to...more
On May 2, 2024, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) introduced legislation they say will help protect warehouse workers from injury by placing limitations on, and requiring...more
On November 1, 2022, the Workers Compensation Amendment Act (No. 2), or Bill 41, passed second reading in the British Columbia legislature. If enacted, Bill 41 would make a number of important changes to the Workers...more
In response to a New Jersey Supreme Court decision finding that an employee who was injured while walking from a parking lot two blocks from the physical place of employment was not in the course of the employment, the NJ...more
Senate Bill 213 is still working its way through the California Legislature and, as such, is not yet in effect. Because health care workers have significantly increased exposure or susceptibility to particular work-related...more
On January 21, 2021, Bill 3375 was introduced to the Senate. If passed, Bill 3375 will present significant consequences for insurance carriers, third-party administrators and employers in workers’ compensation matters. The...more
The 2021 Kentucky General Assembly got underway last week and, as expected, the leaders wasted no time setting their COVID-19 legislative agenda. Of particular importance for Kentucky businesses is Senate Bill 5, which, if...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Recently the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill with bipartisan support that would require the Department of Labor to promulgate an OSHA standard specifically aimed at protecting healthcare and...more
Franczek recently hosted an at capacity seminar on preventing workplace violence. As a follow-up to that event, and as further introduction to Tracey Truesdale and Jason Patterson who frequently counsel employers on this...more
Indiana GOP lawmaker and Chamber of Commerce join forces to support a bill to require a penalty for workplace fatalities of $100,000 per employee killed. House Bill 1341, authored by GOP lawmaker Martin Carbaugh, was filed on...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there were an unprecedented number of changes all through 2017. And if the first three months...more
If you are involved in safety or risk management, especially in construction, you recognize that struck-by accidents are almost always among the top three causes of employee deaths. What you may not appreciate is that most...more
As the Thanksgiving holiday approached, Republican lawmakers in both chambers of Congress made progress toward their singular legislative priority to enact comprehensive tax reform. Facing uncertainty in the 2018 midterm...more
The Iowa Legislature is currently reviewing proposed legislation pertaining to Iowa’s Workers’ Compensation laws. The proposed legislation has been introduced as House File 518, with companion Senate File 435. ...more
While it seems the members of our state legislature have been busy doing nothing but arguing about the budget for the past year – one young state rep has proposed a bill that may have a positive effect on employers seeking...more
A bill to allow Tennessee employers to voluntarily opt-out of the state’s workers’ compensation system appears to have been derailed, at least for this year....more