This highly-qualified expert has 45 years of experience in insurance and risk management, specializing in questionable claims practices, policy rescission, bad faith conduct, coverage disputes, producer professional liability, and insurer insolvency. He holds several professional designations, including Associate in Risk Management, Accredited Advisor in Insurance, and Registered Professional Liability Underwriter. He is also licensed as an insurance producer, a claims ...
This highly-qualified expert in arbitration and mediation has over 25 years of experience. She earned her BA in philosophy at College of William and Mary and her JD at the University of Richmond. She is a certified mediator with the Florida Supreme Court and a certified arbitrator with AIDA Reinsurance & Arbitration Society. She is active in her field as a member of the Association of South Florida Mediators and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Society. She ...
This highly qualified vocational expert has nearly 20 years of professional experience. She completed her BA in psychology at the University of Mississippi and her MEd in Mental Health Services at the University of New Orleans. She is a certified life care planner with an additional certification in life care planning and catastrophic case management. Additionally, this expert is a licensed rehabilitation counselor. Formerly, she has served as a senior rehabilitation ...
This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in commercial insurance and occupational safety. He earned his BA in philosophy from Allegheny College and is an associate of risk management and associate of underwriting through the AICPCU/The Institutes, as well as an OSHA-authorized general industry instructor and a certified occupational health and safety technician. He began his career as a reporter, news editor, and photographer for the Bear Paw Sentinel and ...
This expert earned his BS in Management Science from Virginia Tech and Executive Graduate Program College of Insurance. This expert also has a number of certifications including certification as a Certified Builders Insurance Agent, certification by the College of Insurance, and certification by the National Safety Council. He is licensed as a Property and Casualty Agent and a Life and Health Agent in North Carolina. In addition, he is the Vice Chairman of the Safety ...
This qualified expert of Premium Audits obtained her AA in Paralegal Studies from the University of LaVerne. She is a member of the Premium Audit Review Consultants Group and the Risk Management Society. She is currently a Premium Auditor at a private consulting firm....
As founder and president of a well-established human resources consultancy firm, this expert has more than 28 years of experience in human resources and general management. Among his professional credits in human resource management are the establishment of comprehensive HR departments where none previously existed; the design and installation of base and incentive compensation systems and benefits plans; the development of affirmative action plans; the development of ...
This expert has more than 20 years of experience in the field of compensation, and is recognized worldwide for his global expertise in sales incentive plan design, as well as other kinds of variable reward and recognition programs. He has worked in both public and private sectors, and has a wide range of diversified industry experience that includes Finance, Managed Care, Food, Chemical and Durable Goods manufacturing.
He has been an invited speaker at several ...
Judge Carlos Lopez, of Florida’s 11th Judicial Circuit, recently denied a motion to dismiss in Gutierrez v. Publix. The case, which focuses on issues of workers’ compensation and wrongful death in connection with COVID-19, is likely to lay the groundwork…
Since the onset of the pandemic, labor and employment litigation has been on the rise. Now, over 1,300 lawsuits—and counting—have been filed against employers in the U.S. with workplace safety often at the center of the claims. Recently, a California…
In early November 2020, a judge for the Eastern District of New York dismissed a COVID-19 lawsuit brought by workers at a Staten Island Amazon facility against the e-commerce behemoth. The lawsuit, initially filed in June, alleges violations of New…
On Election Day 2020, California voters approved one of the most expensive ballot measures in the state’s history, Proposition 22. The measure was both created and heavily campaigned for by Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash. With the passing of Proposition 22,…
On September 30, 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published answers to frequently asked questions concerning an employer’s obligation to report hospitalizations and fatalities resulting from work-related cases of COVID-19. Since the early days of the pandemic, OSHA…
The potential for employees to contract COVID-19 at their place of employment has been a huge issue during the current pandemic. This is especially true for essential workers who continued to clock in hours despite a nationwide shutdown when the…
A U.S. district judge in Missouri recently dismissed a worker’s protection lawsuit filed by the Rural Community Workers Alliance. The suit alleged that Smithfield Foods, Inc, the world’s largest pork producer, failed to provide adequate workplace safety in its Milan,…
Court: Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Steiner v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Automatic Brewers & Coffee) Citation: 2019 Pa. Commw. Unpub. LEXIS 441 Facts The claimant, an assembly line employee working on cups and pods for espresso…
Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Third District, Austin Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Barrigan v. MHMR Servs. Citation: 2007 Tex. App. LEXIS 43 Facts This was an appeal from a jury verdict in a workers’ compensation case to determine the…
Court: Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth Appellate District, Cuyahoga County Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Howell v. CONRAIL Citation: 2019-Ohio-2434 Facts The plaintiff worked for the defendant Conrail from 1975 until his retirement in 2013. The plaintiff earlier worked in…
Court: Court of Appeals of Michigan Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Lilly v. Grand Trunk W. R.R. Co Citation: 2019 Mich. App. LEXIS 85 Facts This case involves a worker’s compensation claim filed under the Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA). The…
This case involves the treatment of a 66-year-old female for injuries she sustained from a fall in her home. The woman fell down ten stairs and suffered chronic back pain as a result of the incident. Because the woman was…
This case involves a 46-year-old woman who was using a 2-year-old chainsaw to cut wood in her backyard. Further investigation revealed that the saw was missing its movable guard. As the woman was cutting through a block of wood, the saw disassembled and the blade…
This case involves a 47-year-old construction worker who was injured while working on a commercial project site. The worker’s leg became entangled in the blades of a trenching machine and required amputation on-site. An expert in forensic economics was sought to opine on the…
This case involves a number of workers’ compensation insurers. A number of public entities had experienced issues with their workers’ compensation insurers increasing premiums following annual policy assessments conducted by the insurance firms. This behavior continued for a number of…
This case involves an alleged breach of an employee confidentiality agreement, with trade secrets and confidential information passed from one company to another by a senior employee. The plaintiff is a large medical device company in the orthopedic space. It…
