Claimant Attorney Files 4 more Constitutional Challenge Petitions with High Court

A claimants’ attorney who’s part of 10 pending constitutional challenges to Oklahoma’s controversial, year-old workers’ compensation law hopes to see the state Supreme Court take up six of those cases. On Monday, Oklahoma City attorney Bob Burke filed petitions with the high court to consider constitutionality issues in four separate cases. The Supreme Court has already agreed to hear one pending constitutional challenge, and Burke is awaiting word on another petition for review on an exclusive-remedy case. “We’re 14 months into the new law, and all th...