First, there’s a new workers’ compensation blog in town. Louisiana Comp Blog (http://compblog.com/), which is published by LCI Workers’ Comp, looks great. I’m a fan of the design and the content, and I look forward to many insightful discussions in the future. I have already subscribed and I suggest you do the same. The following snippet explains Louisiana Comp Blog’s mission:
Louisiana Comp Blog’s fresh and original content ranges from features and profiles of industry leaders to commentary/opinion articles and event coverage. We also publish a daily Comp News Bulletin every morning, which allows our readers to get a head start on their day with the top three to five stories affecting Louisiana’s workers’ comp industry on both the local and national scale. All of this makes us your one-stop source for the best workers’ comp reporting from across Louisiana.
Second, we are one month away from the annual DOL West Coast Symposium. Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, in cooperation with the United States Department of Labor, have scheduled an outstanding conference. Feel free to register through Loyola’s enrollment webpage or via the standard mail-in registration form. Although a more in-depth schedule is available on Loyola’s website, topics for the Symposium include:
Updates from the Department of Labor, the Joint Bar Association, and WILG
Adequacy of Section 8(i) Settlement Agreements
Self-Executing Compensation Orders in light of the Benefits Review Board’s Mitri Decision
MSA Guidelines
Emerging Social Issues Affecting the Longshore Act
A Round Table Discussion with the San Francisco Administrative Law Judges
Attorneys Fees on the West Coast
Third, we have three additional Longshore-related conferences to look forward to. Save the dates for:
November 18, 2014: A Day with the Department of Labor in Houston, TX
December 9, 2014: A Day with the Department of Labor in New Orleans, LA
March 19-20, 2015: Loyola’s Annual Longshore Conference in New Orleans, LA
(Note: I first published this post on Navigable Waters: A Maritime, Longshore, and Defense Base Act Blog.)
