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05/15/2019

Dirska and Levin, LLC welcome our newest associate, Bacon, Esquire. If you have any questions about your workers' compensation claims, please call 410-995-6688 and ask for Bacon.

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09/14/2016

Check out our new Opioid Resources page for the latest developments regarding upcoming legislation and best practices! http://www.comp.law/opioids/

Opioid Resources It's time to get a handle on claims that have taken pain management a step too far.

04/13/2016

New post: Opioid Update: New Legislation Afoot! http://www.workerscompdefense.com/blog/2016/4/12/opioid-update-new-legislation-and-guidelines-afoot

A local legislator finding out that large pharmaceutical companies selling opioid analgesics may have somewhat understated their devastating impact upon the Nation.  Hear the bristling of bewildered barristers and seething soothsayers, lo, for the opioid epidemic's second shoe hath fallen! The loqua…

02/16/2016

New post:Maryland Workers' Comp Legislation - 2016 Session http://www.workerscompdefense.com/blog/2016/2/16/maryland-workers-comp-legislation-2016-session

Witnesses in favor of SB0186 being escorted to Annapolis along  U.S. Route 50.  Lo, twas brillig about, as the Maryland Association for Justice witnesses wandered and wabed toward the State Chambers. Hopeless, they knew was their task, yet valiantly they would fight on for a reversal of the nine yea…

09/18/2015

New post:Impairment of the "Permanent" Variety: Great Expectations, a Weighted Die http://www.workerscompdefense.com/blog/2015/9/18/impairment-of-the-permanent-variety-great-expectations-a-weighted-die

Gerald Gay, Esq. (left), barrister for the Claimant, and Gregory Eichelman, Esq. (right), barrister for Employer/Insurer negotiating a stipulation through a rousing game of craps as Claimant and Adjusters look on.  "Ties go to the Claimant!" recited Gerald, for what must have been the twelfth time t…

08/14/2015

New post:Impairment of the "Permanent" Variety: A Cauldron of Calculated Combined Values http://www.workerscompdefense.com/blog/2015/8/14/impairment-of-the-permanent-variety-combined-values

Original manuscript of barrister Howard Miller, partner of our patron firm, calculating a percentage of permanent impairment utilizing the combined values calculation. Or an early diagram of the Death Star.  Math. It is a pox upon those of us in the humanities, haunting our dreams. Yet it governs ou…

08/03/2015

New post:Impairment of the "Permanent" Variety: An Introduction http://www.workerscompdefense.com/blog/2015/7/31/impairment-of-the-permanent-variety

"It's totally lumbago!" spoketh Dr. Callahan, prodding the claimant. Dr. Silver snorted. "No, no! Methinks it is sciatica." For the poor employee had lifted with his back and not his legs, thus forever more he must be awkwardly prodded by strangers.  Painting by Adriaen Rombouts http://catalogue.wel…

07/27/2015

New post:The Grand Bargain http://www.workerscompdefense.com/blog/2015/7/27/the-grand-bargain

Solicitor Howard Miller (second from left), partner of our patron firm, negotiating the terms of the 1901 Treaty of Annapolis between Ye Not Yet Olde Market (left) and AFL-CIO negotiators (right). This little known treaty inspired the Act of 1902, Maryland (and the United States') first Workers' Com…

07/22/2015

New post:We Congregate Online in Social Places! http://www.workerscompdefense.com/blog/2015/7/22/we-congregate-online-in-social-places

Hark, hear now, fair reader! Tired of constantly pressing refresh on our most informative and enlightening blog? Rest your weary finger, and like us on the Book of Faces, or follow our bird calls on Twitters! There, we will minimally pollute your stream of tidings with fresh blog posts and the occas…

07/22/2015

Ho there, good reader! Welcome to our page! Here, find links to our latest Workers' Compensation related musings as collected at our blog http://www.workerscompdefense.com/. There may well also be sundry pictures of our latest tasty meals and the occasional selfie.