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Workers Comp Matters
Workers Comp Matters is hosted by Attorney Alan S. Pierce, the only Legal Talk Network program that focuses entirely on the people and the law in workers compensation cases. Nationally recognized Trial Attorney, expert and author, Alan S. Pierce is a leader committed to making a difference when work...
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A Teacher Injured in a School Shooting: When Is the School Responsible?
Workers’ Compensation has traditionally been a bargain, a “deal” workers and employers agree to. Workers injured on the job are compensated quickly an...
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: The Impact of Heat on Workplace Injuries
Hot enough for ya? Guest Sebastian Negrusa Ph.D. is a researcher at the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) and the co-author of the recen...
First Responders and Workers’ Comp, Understanding Workplace Injuries and PTSD
What happens when a first responder is hurt on the job or suffers from job-related post-traumatic stress? We depend on these heroes among us, always t...
Exclusive Remedy: The “Great Bargain” (and the Exceptions)
Let’s talk about the “exclusive remedy,” what it means, why Workers’ Comp matters, and the exceptions. The concept of exclusive remedy is based on the...
When Undocumented Immigrants Are Hurt at Work
These are unprecedented times for the rights of immigrant workers in the United States. The current political climate has thrown a wrench into the Wor...
More “Strange but True” Workers’ Comp Cases (and What They Teach Us)
Hosts Alan and Judson Pierce reflect on nearly two decades of the Workers Comp Matters podcast with an examination of unusual or bizarre claims and ca...
Sprain? Strain? Subluxation? Medical Insights That Can Help Attorneys.
Guest Dr. Peter Yeh is an orthopedic surgeon with more than 15 years in medicine treating shoulder, upper arm, and knee issues. The stuff that happens...
Enhancing Your Argument With Storytelling
Being a good lawyer is a lot about great storytelling. Unfortunately, that’s often not taught in law school. Facts build the case, but effective story...
AI May Be Big, But Nothing Replaces People In Workers’ Comp Claims
AI may be changing the Workers’ Compensation insurance industry, but that doesn’t diminish the importance of a personal touch. Guest Michael Kelley le...
Brain Strain: Workplace Psychological Injury Compensation
Guest Michael C. Duff, professor at the St. Louis University School of Law, explores the evolving field of mental health injuries in the Workers’ Comp...
New Study Asks if Having a Lawyer Boosts Workers Comp Payments
Guest Bogdan Savych, a senior policy analyst at the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), discusses his new paper, written with David Neuma...
VA Disability Claims: An Often Overlooked Benefit Source
Our military and public service veterans deserve our best. Guest Alex Dell is a longtime Workers’ Compensation and Veterans Affairs compensation attor...
50 Years In Workers’ Comp: Alan Pierce’s Observations and Reflections
In this special episode, co-host Alan Pierce shares his thoughts on an auspicious occasion, celebrating his 50th year practicing Workers’ Compensation...
Using AI To Help Both Sides, Adjusters And Injured Workers
How will AI help us help workers injured on the job? What voids will AI help us fill as we work to help people get back to work and life? Treatment au...
A New Approach to Workers’ Comp: Being Nice?
Guest Claire C. Muselman’s recent publication in WorkersCompensation.com encourages adjusters to take a new look at Workers’ Compensation’s goals. May...
Alternative Medicine and Workers’ Comp Coverage: A Puzzle.
Let’s talk about alternative medicine and coverage under Workers’ Comp’s hodgepodge of rules.
Guest Maya Rashid is a recent graduate of Penn St...
New Insights: How A Worker’s Mental State Influences Injury Recovery
When workers are recovering from a workplace injury, there are psychosocial factors, mental factors, which can impede the recovery from physical injur...
The “Multi-Tentacled Monster:” Repetitive Stress Claims
This episode opens a new topic for the Workers Comp Matters podcast: repetitive stress injuries, sometimes referred to cumulative trauma, acquired on...
Think You Know Workers’ Comp? The Times, They Are A Changing!
The “times they are a changing” in the world of Workers’ Compensation, a system developed when the relationship between workers and employers were mor...
When Things Get Weird, Volume 2: Unusual Cases of Workers’ Comp
A person getting hurt at the workplace is never funny. But it can be instructional to examine some of the strangest ways people manage to become injur...
Fighting The “HIPAA Police,” Accessing Your Client’s Medical Records
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is 27 years old. For better or worse, it was designed to protect patients. But in real...
Long COVID And Workers’ Comp, A Deep Dive Into A Real Issue
Did we ever learn a lot during the once-in-a-generation health event that was COVID! Guest Dr. Bogdan Savych of the Workers Comp Research Institute (W...
What Is A Workplace Injury When Your Home Is Your Workplace?
Our understanding of work and workplaces may have been forever changed by the COVID pandemic. Many workers today are working from their own homes or c...
How A New Documentary Movie, “Americonned,” Relates To Workers’ Comp
Guest Dave Pederson is the producer of a new film, “Americonned,” that examines how the past few generations of workers have suffered from income ineq...
“For Every Wrong, A Remedy?” When A Workplace Event Harms A Family
What about the rights of an injured worker’s spouse and family members after a work-related injury or illness? Guest Michael Duff, law professor, form...
The “F-Word” In Workers’ Comp: Fraud. Not Always The Employer?
Let’s talk about the F-word in Workers’ Compensation: Fraud.
Guest Connor Thomson is a second-year law student at Villanova University who won...
Support That Goes Beyond Lawyers and Doctors: Kind Souls Foundation Lends An Ear
Helping workers and their families get back on their feet after a workplace injury or other workplace-displacing health event takes more than legal ai...
Medical Marijuana, Your Client, And Who Pays
Marijuana was once fodder for stoner comedies and standup routines. But today, medical marijuana is a serious matter in Workers’ Compensation. Fair co...
When A Worker Is Injured, So Is The Family: Helping Children Move Forward.
Guest Kathleen Fisher is an accomplished attorney in the field of Workers’ Compensation, but she’s also an active leader of the organization Kids’ Cha...
Back To School: Learning To Focus On “Recovery,” Not “Claims”
Guest Robert “Bob” Wilson is a leader at Work Comp College, created to offer a deeper dive into workplace protections for employees. He’s not a lawyer...
Settle Down: How Settlements Work in Workers’ Comp Cases
To settle or not to settle, often a question. Our guest, Jim Anderson, is a well-known Workers’ Comp attorney and a leader in the field in Mississippi...
Urgent Need: Serving First Responders With PTSD
We depend on our first responders – firefighters, cops, emergency room workers – every day. They protect us from harm. But what happens when they need...
When Things Get Weird: Fascinating Cases, Different Jurisdictions
A reminder that every case is different. Injuries occur in unusual situations that challenge how we think about Workers’ Compensation and how every st...
Longshoremen and Workers’ Comp Act — Coverage, Benefits and Compensation
Enjoy a deep dive into the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act with a veteran of the field, guest Norman Cole. The Act is a federal comp pr...
Embrace Your Inner Matlock: “Acting” In The Courtroom
Guest Rachel Bailit is not an attorney, she’s an actor. So why is she a guest on a show about lawyers and legal issues? As an experienced acting teach...
A Playbook for Tackling Workers’ Comp in Professional Sports
It’s one thing when a shelf stocker slips at work and injures her back. It’s another thing entirely when a professional athlete blows a knee on the fo...
Workers’ Comp Medical Fee Schedules: What You Need To Know
Workers’ Compensation is primarily designed to provide two benefits: payroll replacement for injured workers and medical payments to providers. But ov...
Has the “Great Bargain” Worked? Well … It’s Complicated
Continuing our discussion of the 50th anniversary of the National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation (as it was called) report. We’ve come a l...
50 Years After a Review of Workplace Protections, Time for Another Look?
July marks the 50th anniversary of the National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation laws. The system we have in place wasn’t always so. Even af...
Workers’ Comp and COVID: An American Failure
Guest Joanne Doroshow is the founder and executive director of the Center for Justice & Democracy, a national consumer organization dedicated to prote...