Did you know that since 2004 saws have been in production that when contact is made with human skin, an aluminum block stops the whirling power saw blade within 5 milliseconds? Injuries that result can usually be treated with a bandaid. Amputations become a thing of the past. And did
South Carolina’s Supreme Court in 2003 laid out how workers’ compensation subrogation really works in that state. In Breeden v TCW/Tennessee Express, the court surprised everyone with a rational, solid ruling. In what we like to refer to as the “Two-Bucket” approach to subrogation, th
Louisiana limits combined plaintiff attorney’s fees and expenses in comp subrogation to a max ONE THIRD of the employer/insuror’s lien PLUS you get a future credit against further comp payments equal to the net amount disbursed to the claimant PROVIDED you have intervened into any thi