Travis Studdard Co-Chairs Workers’ Compensation Seminar
Travis Studdard was honored to serve as co-chair for the 2018 WCCL “For Your Eyes Only” seminar held at the State Bar of Georgia on February 13th. The “For Your Eyes Only” seminar is an annual training session for lawyers from around the state of Georgia who represent injured workers. This was Travis’ third year […]
Meredith Thompson Admitted to Georgia State Bar
Meredith Thompson was sworn in as an attorney on November 13, 2017 by the Honorable Bill Hamrick at the Carroll County Courthouse. She joined Perkins Studdard, LLC after she obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law. Meredith will work on both the Workers’ Compensation and Veterans Disability teams at Perkins […]
Is Alabama Workers Compensation Unconstitutional?
Many of my clients complain about the fairness of Georgia’s workers compensation laws. From my perspective, those laws definitely favor employers and insurance companies instead of injured workers. Each state has its own workers compensation system. State legislatures usually create these systems by passing a set of laws known as a workers compensation act. Alabama’s […]
How Technology Affects Manufacturing Jobs?
Manufacturing jobs provides employment to millions of people in the United States each year. However, that number has dropped significantly in the last 35 years. In 1980, there were over 19 million manufacturing jobs in the United States. Currently, there are just over 12 million manufacturing jobs according to the United States Department of Labor. […]
Cliff Perkins’ Case Followed By Court of Appeals
The Court of Appeals recently issued a decision interpreting the case of Padgett v. Waffle House. Padgett is a case that Cliff Perkins appealed to the Supreme Court and won. The Supreme Court agreed with Cliff’s argument that an employer should have to pay temporary total disability benefits to an injured worker when the employer fired the […]
New Statute of Limitations Case Bars TTD Benefits
The Georgia Court of Appeals recently decided a statute of limitations case involving an injured worker who needed knee replacement surgery. Unfortunately, the Court concluded that the injured worker could not receive temporary total disability benefits while his doctor disabled him from work as a result of the knee replacement surgery. What are the underlying facts […]
Jason Perkins Speaks at Workers’ Compensation Seminar
Jason Perkins recently spoke at a Georgia workers’ compensation seminar held at the State Bar of Georgia. The seminar focused on alternative dispute resolution in Georgia workers’ compensation cases. Jason was selected to speak about ethics in the alternative dispute resolution process. Jason was part of a panel that featured three others attorneys who also […]
New Statute of Limitations Case Bars Additional Benefits
The Georgia Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion regarding what is commonly known as the change in condition statute of limitations. As we discussed in an earlier blog article on statutes of limitations, the change in condition statute of limitations provides a deadline for applying for and receiving additional temporary total disability and temporary […]
Some Folks Are Just A Little Crazy
Last year, three members of the Perkins Studdard family, along with two of their spouses and other friends, decide to run the Dixie 200, a 200 mile team race from Atlanta to Birmingham. Although most of the runners on the team had not even run a half marathon before, they persevered through cold, rain, and […]
Jason Perkins Speaks On Discovery of Social Media
Jason Perkins was recently featured as a speaker at the 2013 Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation’s Annual Educational Conference. The conference started on August 25 and was attended by many hundreds of people involved in Georgia’s workers’ compensation system including judges, attorneys, insurance adjusters, and employers. Along with Fred Green from the law firm […]
