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In these Covid-19 times, employers seem to be looking for ways to cut their payroll. That means terminating employees, whether a long time worker or not.

It really bugs me when I hear those words “essential worker”. So if I am not considered to be an essential worker I must sit at home, on the sidelines so to speak, while others go to work, earn a paycheck and put food on their tables.

If a partially disabled worker quits work stating that the workplace is not safe due to Corona 19 virus outbreaks at the workplace, should the worker be entitled to an automatic resumption of full workers' compensation benefits…and for how long?

When the China Wuhan virus began to rear its ugly head in Georgia, I saw it as a wonderful economic opportunity for insurance companies and their lawyers, the emissaries of “delay and deny” to fight every claim.

Now that the states are authorizing the re-opening of businesses to different degrees, businesses, large and small, want immunity from their workers if the business fails to provide a safe workplace.

Senator Tom Cotton, US Senator of Kansas, has introduced legislation in the US Senate to return pharmaceutical manufacturing to the USA.  Before the Corona Virus crisis, no one paid much attention to our nation's increasing dependency on the Communist Chinese for our medicine supply.

The Corona Virus has brought out the best of us but is has also brought out some really thorny problems. To name a few, the USA's dependency on Communist China's production of our basic medicines that we have all grown dependent upon.

Here is a very real hypothetical situation that I would try to classify as a Georgia workers' compensation injury claim.

It really “bugs me” when insurance company claim adjusters and their lawyers downgrade my client's mental health after my client has sustained not only a serious injury but has submitted to lengthy and painful surgery and is in or needs pain management treatment.

There are a number of different types of depression.  The 5th Edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders lists nine distinct types.  The type that I deal with in workers' compensation/job injury cases is what we would call situational depression.