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1.    Industrial Accident Board grants continuance but suspends temporary total disability benefits pending rescheduled hearingFortt v. Delaware Brick Company, IAB No. 1542958 (Dec. 12, 2024)

1.    Treatment with an authorized provider tolls the statute of limitations, although treatment occurred without employer/carrier’s knowledge and billed to private health insurance

1.    Proposed bills to protect workers from heat-related illnesses and injuries

1.    Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that the compensation rate for specific loss benefits is controlled by Section 306(c) of the Act, not Section 306(a)

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The claimant had suffered a compensable work injury to his low back in 2004. As a result, he underwent five compensable low back surgeries, all performed by Dr. Kalamchi. In 2020, Dr.

In this matter of first impression, Florida’s First District Court of Appeal addressed whether Florida Statutes Section 440.25(4)(d) precludes Daubert challenges to Expert Medical Advisor (EMA) opinions.

The respondent, Andersen/Silver Line Windows, appealed a decision that granted the petitioner’s motion for medical and temporary benefits. On July 16, 2020, the petitioner was injured lifting glass while working for the respondent.

This case involved a claimant who, as a firefighter, experienced two events in which he performed cardiac pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on infants within a period of roughly two-and-one half years, both of whom were not resuscitated.