Workers' Compensation News
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Jury Acquits Sim Hoffman on Lone Remaining Fraud Charge | 03/04/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Orange County jury acquitted a sleep doctor on the lone remaining charge from a case spanning more than a decade in which he was accused of defrauding California workers' compensation carriers out of $7 million. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Hensley to Retire March 31 | 02/15/2022 | |
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| The Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board announced that Judge David F. Hensley will retire March 31. ...Read More | |||
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Judicial Panel Selects 5 for Workers' Compensation Court Vacancy | 12/08/2021 | |
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| Rhode Island's Judicial Nominating Commission has named five attorneys to potentially fill a vacancy on the state Workers’ Compensation Court, the Providence Journal reports. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Errs in Vacating Dismissal Order | 11/02/2021 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that a trial judge had jurisdiction over a motion to enforce a settlement between an employer and injured worker but erred in vacating a prior order dismissing the worker’s comp claim. ...Read More | |||
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Justice Errs in Excluding Defendant's Affidavits, but No Summary Judgment Due | 10/18/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a defendant in a personal injury suit was not entitled to summary judgment on an exclusive remedy defense, even though the trial justice erred in excluding its supporting affidavits. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Errs in Issuing Award Without Addressing Carrier's Argument for EMA | 10/01/2021 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that a judge of compensation claims erred in awarding benefits to an injured worker after rejecting an insurance carrier’s challenge to the worker’s ability to select her own treating physician without addressing the insurer's argument regarding the...Read More | |||
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Jury Acquits Surgeon on Kickback Charges | 08/17/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal jury in Southern California acquitted Dr. Serge Obukhoff on all 35 counts of conspiracy and health care fraud in a 2018 indictment alleging that the neurosurgeon accepted kickbacks related to spinal surgeries performed on work comp patients at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Errs in Declining to Consider Expert's Opinion on Aggravation | 08/16/2021 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that a trial judge erred in declining to consider a medical expert’s opinions on whether a car accident had aggravated a worker’s preexisting medical conditions. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Errs in Overturning Noncompensability for Cervical Spine Injury | 08/03/2021 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that a judge erred in overturning a determination that a worker’s cervical spine injuries were not related to his 2008 fall from scaffolding. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Tosses 2nd Lawsuit Against Insurance Commissioner Over Conservation Order | 07/15/2021 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal judge for the second time this year has dismissed a lawsuit against Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara over his department’s rehabilitation and conservation plan for a California workers’ comp carrier trying to leave the state. ...Read More | |||
