Origins of Work Comp CLE Summary

Show Notes

Time Schedule:  60 minutes

Summary of Topics Covered

 

Introduction of Instructor Michael Duff

European System and the French Train Project of 1832

Swiss Early Structure

German System and Otto Von Bismarck

English Evolution:

• Factor Acts
• Inspectorates
• Fencing
• Liability Statutes
• WC Act of 1897

American Liability Acts/Federal Employee Liability Act of 1908
How These Issues Still Affect Work Comp in Wyoming Today

 

Instructor Michael Duff, Esq. Bio:

Professor of Law, University of Wyoming
Founder, Co-Editor and Author, Workers’ Compensation Law Professors’ Blog
National Labor Relations Board, Regional Office Attorney
McTeaque, Higbee & Mac Adam, Associate
Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, Law

Honors and Awards

2017 University of Wyoming College of Law Extraordinary Merit Award
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Member, National Academy of Social Insurance
Fellow, College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers
Pound Academic Fellow, Pound Civil Justice Institute
Recognition Award, Workers’ Injury Law and Advocacy Group
Centennial Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law 2014-2017

 

Books

Workers’ Compensation Law
Teachers Manual for Workers’ Compensation Law
Wyoming Workers Compensation Law (forthcoming)
Secunda, Hirsch & Duff, Labor Law: A Problem Based Approach
Labor, Civil Resistance, and the Rule of Law

Creators & Guests

Host

Justin Victor Kallal

Justin is a retired Wyoming trial lawyer whose career focused on representing injured individuals and workers. WyoLawPod is an opportunity for him to have interesting conversations with fascinating lawyers and give listeners free CLE credit.

Guest

Michael C. Duff

Michael C. Duff is Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law, where he co-directs the Wefel Center for Employment Law and is co-editor of the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law. Professor Duff is a member of the American Law Institute, a scholar-member of the Center for Progressive Reform, and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and an academic fellow at the National Civil Justice Institute. Professor Duff also serves as member of the Missouri Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Professor Duff attended college in his late 20s, while simultaneously employed full-time as a union-represented airline ramp worker. He was one of the first Black Teamster shop-stewards in the U.S. Airways (now American Airlines) system. The first member of his family to attend college, Professor Duff went directly from the airport tarmac to the Harvard Law School after graduating summa cum laude from West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He ultimately graduated from law school in 1995 and went on to work for a small law firm in Maine where he represented injured workers and labor unions. Thereafter he worked for the National Labor Relations Board for a decade in the Philadelphia and Minneapolis regional offices. He has written textbooks and journal articles in several different areas of workplace law.

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