If you attend a
hearing at the Workers’ Compensation Board
and listen to the
attorneys speak to each other and to the judge,
you might think they
may as well be speaking in Swahili or
Japanese. This is
because attorneys who practice Workers’
Compensation use a legal
language to talk about cases. They
speak in acronyms, or
letters that represent phrases.
Take a look at this
common one: “RFA-2 granted; no CCP due
to FTP; NFA.” This
means that the carrier requested a hearing
(RFA-2;). At this
hearing the judge decided to stop the claimant’s
weekly checks (no
CCP) because the claimant didn’t appear at
the hearing (FTP) and
there are no further hearings scheduled
at this time (NFA.)
All I can say about
this is that if you don’t understand a particular
abbreviation or
acronym, you simply need to speak up and ask
what it means.
I have included a
short, but not complete, list of common
abbreviations and
acronyms and the terms they stand for.
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