Legal News and Oddities

The “Choosing Wisely” Initiative and Medical Testing

The Choosing Wisely® initiative is a recent partnership between the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation) and Consumer Reports whose aim …

Proposed Changes to Medicare Set-Asides Affect Workers’ Compensation Settlements

The meeting of the 111th Congress was the one that saw Medicare Secondary Payer bill H.R. 2641 flop over and twitch. The …

Connecticut woman fights back against overzealous workers’ compensation investigators

You might expect investigators to be vigilant when checking up on the activities of workers whose workers’ compensation case they …

Georgia’s cracking down on businesses who shuck their duty to provide workers’ compensation coverage for employees.

The state of Georgia requires most employers with three or more full-time, part-time or seasonal employees to offer workers’ comp …

Workers’ compensation fraud can be fun! Until it’s not.

Listen. It’s perfectly okay to have the impulse to beat someone into a human stew. It’s perfectly okay to act …

Ignoring your mail may cost you your workers’ compensation case.

If you ignore a notice from the Georgia courts, it could cost you your case. Ready Mix USA found this out …

More about criminal law in Georgia

Okay, in an earlier post I was discussing the differences and similarities between types of law. I briefly outlined civil case procedure …

New York ups the ante on texting while driving; Georgia there, too.

Erie County, New York got a jump on much of the rest of the state when they passed a law …

To what extent should the law make us our brother’s keeper?

By law, bartenders can’t let an obviously drunk person leave their bar and drive a vehicle. A city councilor in …

Facebook photos result in loss of workers’ compensation benefits

Remember back in January when I told you that where workers’ compensation cases are concerned, insurance company attorneys would look for …