Court Rejects Attorney's Request for Increased Fee

A New York appellate court upheld a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Board to reduce a fee requested by an attorney who represented a worker in an occupational disease claim. Case: Matter of Seales v. Eastern Concrete Cutting Corp., No. 528732, 01/09/2010, published. Facts and procedural history: Kevan Seales worked for the Eastern Concrete Cutting Corp. He hired attorney Geoffrey Schotter to help him pursue a workers’ compensation claim. After several hearings, Seales established his entitlement to benefits for an occupational disease with a date of disablement of Mar...