By Ronald Hilley II, Esq.
For employers, with social distancing and more specifically co-workers who no longer work physically in the same location, investigating claims will be different. Of course, adjusters always have (with a few exceptions) investigated claims by phone or email. Even for employers, HR offices are not always in the same location. […]
Pursuant to Georgia’s current workers’ compensation law, whether a case of coronavirus will be compensable needs to be evaluated under Georgia’s “Occupational Disease” statute. An occupational disease requires the following elements as outlined in O.C.G.A. § 34-9-280(2):
A direct causal connection between the conditions under which the work is performed and the disease;
The disease followed as […]
By: Ron L Hilley II
Employers and insurers often deal with claims in which it seems
the injured employee is exaggerating his or her symptoms, particularly when
there is no objective testing that can explain the levels of reported
pain. At this year’s workers’ compensation seminar, psychiatrist Dr.
Matthew Norman discussed the difference between the medical terms “malingering”
and “conversion” within […]
