Author: Dan Schmidt
Long COVID and Its Workers’ Compensation Implications in Washington
While COVID-19 still dominates all aspects of the workforce and complicates decisions on when to request that workers come back to in-person working, a new form of the virus has emerged which threatens to upend closely laid plans. Post-acute sequalae of SARS CoV-2 (PASC, otherwise known as “long” or “long-haul”…
Washington Workers’ Compensation in a Work from Home World
If there is one thing the pandemic showed us – outside of the beauty of sourdough and the ease of making chicken stock – it is that the modern office construct could be a thing of the recent past. The evolution of at-home work necessarily poses additional questions regarding injuries…
What Came First: The Acceptance or the Authorization? An exploration of Clark County v. Maphet
In 2019, the Washington Court of Appeals issued Clark County v. Maphet, 451 P.3d 713 (2019). The case held that a self-insured employer authorizing treatment of a condition is tantamount to that self-insured employer accepting the condition as part of the claim. A careful understanding of the case is important…
