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  • 2021
    • April
      • Case Update: Court of Special Appeals Clarifies Which Commission Decisions Are Subject to Judicial Review
    • March
      • District of Columbia Enacts COVID-19 Emergency Legislation Impacting Workers' Compensation.
  • 2020
    • December
      • Case Update: Recent Court of Appeals Decision on Employment Relationship
    • October
      • Case Update: Court of Appeals Holds Date of a Claimant's Retirement is the Time of Last Exposure to Industrial Noise
    • September
      • Case Update: Maryland Court of Appeals Adopts Daubert Standard for Admitting Expert Testimony in Rochkind v. Stevenson.
    • August
      • Case Update: CSA clarifies meaning of "paramedic" for purposes of LE §9-628; holds that EMT's qualify as public safety employees
    • June
      • Case Update: Claimant's hernia not compensable as an occupational disease under Maryland Workers' Compensation Act.
    • May
      • Case Update: Court of Appeals finds that Employee's settlement of his claims does not extinguish dependents' claims for death be
    • April
      • Case Update: CSA holds Circuit Court did not err in granting non-appealing party's request for an essential trial de novo and af
      • Case Update: CSA holds that a Claimant's salary at the time of his retirement shall be used to calculate the LE 9-503(e)(2) offs
    • March
      • Case Update: Court of Special Appeals Holds that Obtaining a Medical Evaluation of Permanent Impairment Is Not a Prerequisite Pr
    • February
      • Case Update: Employer Has No Subrogation Claim Against Settlement Paid By Negligent Provider
  • 2019
    • December
      • Case Update: Recent Decision on Employment Relationships and Employer's Liability
    • November
      • Case Update: Hearing Loss and Tinnitus
    • October
      • Case Update: Requests for Modification
      • Case Update: Settlement Agreements and Death Benefits
      • Case Update: Going and Coming Rule
      • Case Update: Degenerative Knee Tears Not Ruled Out as an Occupational Disease
      • Case Update: In the Course of Employment > Employee's Home as a Work Site
  • 2015
    • February
      • 2015 Maryland Workers' Compensation Rates
      • HMM welcomes John Rufe to our firm!
  • 2014
    • November
      • appellant in a de novo workers' compensation jury trial is not required to move the Commission decision into evidence.
      • HMM welcomes Kelly D. Fato to our firm!
    • September
      • 2014 Maryland Workers' Compensation Rates
    • January
      • Case Update: Documentation Required for Medical Mileage Reimbursement
      • D.C. Update- Calculation of Average Weekly Wage Includes Housing Allowance
      • Case Update: Maryland Court Declines to Rule on Forum non Conveniens
  • 2013
    • December
      • Case Update
    • November
      • Case Update: Timely Filed Wrongful Death Cause of Action Is Not Barred by Deceased's Failure to File a Medical Malpractice Claim
      • Case Update: Court Determines Claimant Is Not Entitled to Receive TTD Payments After Reaching Maximum Medical Improvement
      • Case Update
      • Case Update: The Interplay Between the Medicare Secondary Payer Statute and State Workers' Compensation Laws
      • Case Update- Insurance Carrier Must Be Disclosed to Jury When Carrier Is A Party To The Proceedings
    • October
      • Case Update: MD Standard for Admissibility of Expert Testimony
      • Case Update: The Medicare Secondary Payer Statute and State Workers' Compensation Laws
      • Case Update: Insurer Not Obligated to Pay Underinsured Motorist Benefits When Workers' Compensation Lien Exceeds Judgment Balanc
      • Case Update: Maryland Tenant Does Not Have a Duty to Protect Landlord's Property Against the Unforeseeable Criminal Actions of T
    • August
      • U.S. Court of Appeals (4th Cir.) Finds No Duty of Good Faith Owed by Insurance Company to It's Insured Who Files an Uninsured M
      • Civil Case Update
      • Curry v. Trustmark Ins. Co., (Maryland District Court, July 15, 2013)
    • July
      • Update: Workers' Compensation Commission Revises Procedural Regulations
      • New Case Update: Calculation of Employer and Insurer's Credit Upon Modification of a Compensation Award
      • New Case Update:
    • March
      • Civil Case Update-When a Transfer of Venue is not an Abuse of Discretion
    • January
      • New Case Update-Federal Jurisdiction When Maryland Contact Insignificant
  • 2012
    • December
      • 2013 Workers' Compensation Rates-Effective January 1, 2013
      • Civil Case Update-Capping Damages in Survival and Wrongful Death Actions
      • Civil Case Update-How to Demand a Jury Trial
    • October
      • Employer Issues: Volume 3-Where a Corporate Parent May be Found Liable for a Subsidiary's Actions
      • Insurer Issues: Volume 1-What is a Good Faith Attempt to Settle?
      • Change in WCC Regulation-Average Weekly Wage
    • September
      • New Case Update-Can Payments by the SIF be Accelerated by a Lump Sum Settlement?
    • August
      • New Case Update-Washington Redskin Tom Tupa - Maryland Jurisdiction and a Closer Look at Compensability for Inherently Dangerous
      • Employer Issues: Volume 2 - When are Employers Vicariously Liable for Employee Actions on Their Premises?
      • Employer Issues: Volume 1 - Are Severance Payments a Wage?
    • July
      • Case Update - Dual Benefits to Spouse of Deceased Firefighter Not Allowed Due to Timing of Amendment of Statute
      • Case Update - Loss of Ability to Work Overtime Is a Loss of Wage Earning Capacity
      • Case Update - Act of Third Party Not Compensable if Not Within Scope of Employment
      • Case Update - Employer Negligence Standard under Federal Employees' Liability Act
      • New Case Update - Withdrawl of Accopmanying Issues is Withdrawal of Petition to Reopen
      • New Liability Case Update - Employer Liability for Employee's Motor Tort
      • New Case Update - Supervisor Not Immune from Liability when Acting as Co-Employee, Not Performing Nondelegable Duty
    • May
      • New Case Update - Subsequent Injury at Work Hardening Facility Not Compensable
    • April
      • 2012 Workers' Compensation Rates - Effective January 1, 2012
    • February
      • New Case Update - No Exception to Going and Coming Rule in Motor Vehicle Accident
    • January
      • Pharmaceutical Fee Schedule - Public Hearing Scheduled
  • 2011
    • December
      • 2 Cases: Duty to Defend and Indemnify for Preparing Workers' Compensation Insurance Applications and Board of Education Employe
      • Workers' Compensation Commission No Longer Exclusive Remedy for Negligent Retention/Hiring
    • September
      • 2011 HMM Workers' Compensation Seminar- October 27, 2011
      • 2011 Workers' Compensation Commission Regulatory Changes
  • 2010
    • December
      • Workers' Compensation Rates for 2011 - Effective January 1, 2011
    • November
      • Recent Decisions in Maryland Workers' Compensation
    • October
      • HMM Crab Feast Scheduled for 10/14/2010 is Cancelled
    • September
      • HMM 2010 Annual Crabfeast
    • August
      • New Maryland Workers' Compensation Cases
    • June
      • Statutory Employer only Liable if Injured Worker is a "Covered Employee"
    • May
      • Vocational Rehabilitation Regulations Effective April 19, 2010
    • April
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