A Texas appellate court recognized that an insurance carrier is entitled to recover all benefits paid to an injured worker out of the "first money" recovered from a liable third party.
An idiopathic injury occurs when either the cause of an accident is unknown or when it is due to a personal condition of the employee with no relationship to a workplace risk or hazard. For an injury to be compensable under O.C.G.A. § 34-9-1(4), it must "arise out of" and occur "in the course of" employment.
"Competition for talent between large and small firms is really heated, especially in a tight labor market," said ADP's chief economist Nela Richardson.
Gallagher Bassett's Eric Richardson discusses how the retreat from Afghanistan increased workers' comp claims for civilians based in the war-torn country.