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April 2020 Blog

  • Settlements in the Time of COVID

    You just got out of a claim review, and your supervisor has told you “again” that you have too many open workers’ compensation files, and your account representatives are screaming about their loss run reports. Dejected and deflated, you hang up the phone, and wonder what to do. It will take you forever to contact…

    Posted 4/30/2020

  • Applicability of Credibility to Audibility and Disability

    The South Carolina Supreme Court recently decided a case, Crane v. Ravers Discount Tire Rack and South Carolina Uninsured Employer’s Fund, which clarifies, and perhaps limits, the Workers’ Compensation Commission’s ability to support factual findings related to compensability or entitlement to benefits. Crane suffered an acute injury to his ears on February 14, 2019 when…

    Posted 4/27/2020

  • Update on COVID-19 and Workers’ Compensation in South Carolina

    Clement Rivers, LLP is a member of ALFA International, the global legal network. With 145 member firms across the globe (80 in the United States) ALFA International is the premier global network of independent law firms whose success is driven by broad, deep, local relationships all over the world. ALFA recently asked us to provide…

    Posted 4/17/2020