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A series of articles emphasizing practical
knowledge you can't find in practice guides
and interviews with experts who share
their techniques for effective and efficient
case management
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Articles emphasizing practical knowledge you can't find in
practice guides
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Profiles of people who changed workers’ compensation law.
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• Warren Schneider
• Marjory Harris
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It may be a
scribbled note, hard to
decipher, or a lab order form. If you
scan quickly, it may not leap out.
I first began workers’ compensation practice as a
defense attorney. A huge file was delivered to
my office, with subpoenaed records from the
workers' compensation case and third-party
case. I began plowing through the records,
starting with the pleadings, then the transcripts
of the plaintiff's deposition, and finally the many volumes of subpoenaed
medical records.
The injured worker was claiming orthopedic,
neurologic, and psychiatric injuries from a fall.
He claimed he had been rendered impotent and
celibate since the accident. Imagine my joy when
I found, buried in the voluminous records of a
hospital, a lab slip dated well after the accident.
It accompanied a specimen that was to be
checked for gonococcus. Hand written on the
slip, "Admits to two coital partners." The various
attorneys defending the third parties had not
found this, having better things to do with their time than read the lab slips
in bulky records.
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