Turkheimer & Hadden partners to be featured lecturers at upcoming seminars

Stefan Turkheimer and John Hadden have been asked to participate in a number of upcoming continuing legal education seminars. In the next month, John Hadden will participate in three continuing education seminars sponsored by the Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia - Handling Fall Cases Professionally (February 29), Trial and Error (March 16), and Plaintiff Personal Injury (March 30). He will be speaking on preservation of error for appeal, procedural differences between state and federal courts, and pretrial preparation.

In May, Stefan Turkheimer will chair the employment law track of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association's annual convention, while John Hadden will serve as co-chair of the new lawyers track.

Finally, in August, John will be speaking at the seminar "Handling the Police Liability Claim" sponsored by the National Business Institute.

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Fewer workplace injuries in Tampa over the past few years

Healthday has a report that traumatic orthopaedic injuries for workers has declined in Florida over the past few years, with one possible cause being the downturn of the economy, particularly the housing market. Although a definite correlation between the reduction in injuries and the bad economy is not established by the data on orthopaedic injuries, the seemingly sensible theory is that there are fewer construction jobs being worked, resulting in fewer workplace injuries. Another theory is that workers are being more careful and taking less risks, not wanting to injure themselves in tough economic times. Another, more insidious possibility that Healthday fails to consider is that workers, fearing that they might lose their jobs, are simply not reporting workplace injuries, and are instead trying to work through the injury or seek medical attention on their own outside of the workers' compensation system. Many employers are not very hospitable to injured workers, and with good jobs at a premium, workers may be placing their jobs above their health. Of course, suffering a workplace injury is not a reason to lose one's job. If workers have been chilled from properly reporting workplace injuries, it is another tragic consequence of the bad economy.