Tag: workers comp

• COVID-19

  Workers’ Compensation Legislative Update: COVID-19 & Legislative Session Recap

  • July 22, 2020
  • By Allen & Gooch

  Governor John Bel Edwards issued multiple orders over the past several months due to COVID-19, that affected workers’ compensation in Louisiana. All legal deadlines were suspended from March 17, 2020 until June 15, 2020, and liberative and peremptive prescription delays were suspended from March 17, 2020 until July 5, 2020. All legal delays, including prescription, […]

• Workers' Compensation

  Improper Use of 1010 Form For Physician Referral

  • August 21, 2019
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  As anyone who has practiced or worked in the area of Louisiana Workers Compensation can attest, there are an abundance of state forms. Each form has a specific purpose and exists to create a streamlined approach for how each claim is handled through resolution. However, an increasingly frustrating and confusing misuse of the 1010 Form […]

• Workers' Compensation

  Social Media – Discoverability & Admissibility

  • July 17, 2019
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  A condensed review of Allen & Gooch’s presentation from the 2019 Louisiana Claims Association Conference What is Social Media? One of the biggest issues related to the use of social media evidence in the courts is the lack of a clear definition of what constitutes “social media.” The legislature has attempted to define this term […]

• Workers' Compensation

  Using Maximum Medical Improvement to Request Independent Medical Examinations

  • April 17, 2019
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  Doctors generally use the term “maximum medical improvement” or “MMI” to signify that a patient is as well as he/she will get with the aid of conventional medicine and treatment. Under General Maritime Law, a Jones Act seaman is guaranteed certain benefits until a physician determines that he/she has reached maximum medical improvement. However, maximum […]