A federal appellate court last week ruled that an injured worker forfeited her ability to file a personal injury suit over an on-the-job accident since she failed to disclose the existence of her claim in her ongoing bankruptcy case.
Helen Allen allegedly suffered serious and permanent injuries when a stool she was sitting on collapsed beneath her in October 2009. She filed a products liability suit against the manufacturers of the stool one year later, in October 2009.
At the time, she was going through the bankruptcy process with her husband, Robert. The Allens had filed their Chapter 13 p...
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