Workers' Compensation News
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High Court Says State Officials Can Be Liable for Attack on Attorney
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07/02/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Sherri OkamotoLegal ReporterA narrowly divided New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday ruled that qualified immunity did not shield a group of state officials from liability for an incident at a state-run mental facility where a patient attacked her court-appointed attorney in a...Read More
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Husband, Son of WCB Vice Chair Frances Libous Indicted
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07/02/2014
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State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Peter MantiusNorthern Bureau ChiefThe husband and son of Frances M. Libous, vice chair of the New York Workers’ Compensation Board, have been named in separate indictments related to a tax investigation by the FBI and IRS, according to documents a...Read More
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Hospital Didn't Retaliate by Firing Injured Nurse
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07/02/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: TX | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A Texas employer who laid off a worker after she had exhausted the maximum amount of unpaid leave she could receive after a workplace injury was entitled to summary judgment on the worker's claims for retaliatory discharge, breach of contract, fraud and negligent misrepresentation, the 5th ...Read More
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Hub Names Senior VP for Commercial Division
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07/01/2014
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By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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International brokerage firm Hub International Insurance Services Inc. announced that it hired Jay Corbett as senior vice president of its Commercial Division, based in Folsom, California.Before joining Hub, Corbett was affiliated with the Leavitt Group Brokerage in Sacramento where he s...Read More
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High Court Says Newspaper Carriers Can Proceed with Class Action
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07/01/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The California Supreme Court ruled that a group of newspaper home delivery carriers are entitled to assert a class action against their employer based on their alleged misclassification as independent contractors.Case: Ayala v. Antelope Valley Newspapers Inc., No. S2...Read More
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Husband-and-Wife Doctors Charged with Federal Comp Fraud
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07/01/2014
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State: MD | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A federal grand jury has indicted a husband and wife in Maryland for medical fraud, according to a local news report.Paramjit Ajrawat and his wife, Sukhveen Ajrawat, both doctors, are accused of overbilling their patients and collecting more than $2.3 million in fraudulent insurance payo...Read More
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High Court Tosses Ruling by ALJ who Was a Disbarred Attorney
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07/01/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: DC | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The District of Columbia's highest court ruled that the decision of an administrative law judge who lied about having a valid license to practice law will not be allowed to stand, and ordered the Compensation Review Board to figure out how to deal with the hundreds of cases that Anand K. Ve...Read More
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High Court Says Worker Gets more Benefits after Losing Part of Foot
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06/30/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: NE | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance
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The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that a worker who underwent the partial amputation of his foot to treat an infection arising from an old frostbite injury had suffered a material change in condition and increase in disability that entitled him to seek additional benefits more than two years aft...Read More
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High Court Upholds Coverage for Chiropractic Visits, Massage Care
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06/27/2014
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: KY | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld the compensability of a worker's thrice-weekly massage treatments and chiropractor visits for a 24-year-old injury. Case: Louisville Metro Government v. Cissell, No. 2013-SC-000212-WC, 06/19/2014, unpublished. ...Read More
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