Every year, the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law presents the Annual Longshore Conference. This is the “go-to” conference for all Longshore and Defense Base Act industry professionals. This year’s conference should delight. All district directors are attending and speaking, as are all of the Office of Administrative Law Judges’ district chiefs. This is a rare gathering of all the Longshore and DBA elite. For more information about the conference, visit Loyola’s Continuing Legal Education webpage. For ease of reference, I’ve reprinted the schedule below: Thursday, March 10, 2016 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Registration 8:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Introduction and Announcements 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Significant Judicial Decisions Impacting Claims Arising Under the Acts and its Extensions 9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. A National Overview of the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Practice Before theRead more
Go Get Scannable
Go download the Scannable app. Or any smart phone scanning app. It will make your Longshore or Defense Base Act case a lot easier. For this post, I am going to talk about Scannable because that is the scanning app I use. Scannable (by Evernote) uses your phone’s camera to snap photos of documents, receipts, business cards…anything that is printed. The program converts the photo to a PDF (if you want). From there, you can save, send, or e-mail the document as you see fit. One of Scannable’s best features is that, once activated, the app will automatically take the scanning photo and crop the document. Done and done. How will this be helpful for your Longshore or Defense Base Act case? Think about your last doctor’s visit. Perhaps the doctor’s office handed you a medical report or script as you exited the building. You can use Scannable to instantlyRead more
Check Out the Interactive Constitution
Although this is a little off topic for the Longshore & DBA Review, I had to share a link to the Interactive Constitution: http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution. Have a question about an Article or Amendment? Then the Interactive Constitution might have the answer…and then some: On this site, constitutional experts interact with each other to explore the Constitution’s history and what it means today. For each provision of the Constitution, scholars of different perspectives discuss what they agree upon, and what they disagree about. These experts were selected with the guidance of leaders of two prominent constitutional law organizations–The American Constitution Society and The Federalist Society. This project is sponsored by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The Interactive Constitution is a work-in-progress. For instance, there is interactive content for Amendments 1-15, but content is in the works for other Amendments. Here’s a snippet of Gordon Wood’s write up of theRead more
Just For Fun: Strongpoint Law Firm Playing Cards
What client gift is best suited for Strongpoint Law Firm? A pen? A paperweight? How about playing cards? I just received Strongpoint Law Firm’s first batch of playing cards. And as you can likely tell, I am flush with joy over the finished product. (I’ll stop with the bad puns now.) In all seriousness, I am lucky to have great clients–folks that become family over the course of their claim. If the new playing cards make my clients happy, then the cards make me happy, too. As you can tell from the picture, Strongpoint Law Firm represents injured workers and their families in claims arising under the Defense Base Act, the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, the Jones Act, and in personal injury matters. If Strongpoint Law can help you, contact me (Jon Robinson) immediately. I can be reached by phone at (985) 246-3194, by e-mail at [email protected], orRead more
Longshore Conferences and the Louisiana Comp Blog
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 DOLRead more
Around the Longshore and Maritime Blogosphere
Happy Friday, everyone. Here are some great Longshore and maritime related posts that I recommend reading. The LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation Law Community published two interesting articles. First up is Karen Koenig’s Update from the Benefits Review Board (May 2014). In addition to important statistics about the Board’s caseload, the article addresses the Board’s recent interpretation of Section 2(3)(F) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (“LHWCA”). Congress amended Section 2(3)(F) in 2009. It now excludes from coverage “individuals employed to build any recreational vessel under sixty-five feet in length, or individuals employed to repair any recreational vessels, or to dismantle any part of a recreational vessel in connection with the repair of such vessel . . . if [the individual is] subject to coverage under a state workers’ compensation law.” Next up is The Loyola Current, which is published by the Loyola New Orleans Maritime Law Journal. Recent postsRead more
New Maritime and Longshore Articles Online
Here are some highlights of new Maritime and Longshore articles on the internet: Check out Siobhan Morrissey’s article, For vacationers encountering trouble on cruise ships, U.S. laws may provide little help, which the American Bar Association published on the ABA Journal website. Using the Costa Concordia accident as a backdrop, the article discusses the legal rights of cruise ship vacationers. Also, the article discusses other potential problems haunting the cruise ship industry, such as serious crimes and illnesses. Next, head over to the LexisNexis Workers Compensation Law community for Paul Howell’s article, Meddlin’ With Settlin’. This article addresses the requirements for a Longshore settlement…and the players who could stop a settlement dead in its tracks. Those players include the claimant, the employer and carrier, and the Director. Finally, the New York Post’s website has a great article entitled, Britney Spears’ songs used to fight Somali pirates. No, really. My favorite quote comes from Second Officer Rachel Owens: “It’s soRead more