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Williams Mullen
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Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Health Care
Health Care Law Blog
Williams Mullen: Health Care Providers Lacked Standing to Sue as ERISA Beneficiaries: Rojas v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company
By Mark S. Thomas The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a dismissal of claims by two physicians and their medical practice asserting standing under ERISA to enjoin an insurer from removing them from its coverage network. Rojas...
Steven A. Meyerowitz
over 9 years ago
Financial Fraud Law
Financial Fraud Law Blog
Madoff Brother, Convicted and Jailed, Now is Disbarred
Peter Madoff – Bernard Madoff’s brother – has been disbarred. Just about five years to the day after Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme came to light, just about one year to the day after Peter Madoff was sentenced to consecutive...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Thomas A. Robinson on Top Issues in Workers’ Compensation Law for 2013
Things appear to be “pumping” in the world of workers’ compensation. Legislatures are gathering. Proponents of “reform”—whatever that is—are huddled together, planning their strategies. Pointing to the activities...
Karen C. Yotis
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Federalization of Workers’ Comp: Politics, Opt-Outs and Survival of the State-Based Status Quo
By Karen C. Yotis, Esq., Feature Resident Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter A chronicle of workers’ compensation in the United States tells the story of a persistent (but failing) federal advocacy that gives...
seemlessweb
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Workers’ Compensation Opt-Out Laws: No Escape From ERISA Preemption?
In ERISA Congress has created a “lock-box” in which it both carefully defines and limits state exclusions from the statute and aggressively sweeps up through preemption anything that remains. Thus, if an employee welfare benefit plan is not...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Ohio: Statute Precluding Comp Coverage for Worker Temporarily in the State Does Not Apply to Employee of Texas Non-Subscriber
Like a number of other states, Ohio has a provision in its comp act [ORC Ann. § 4123.54(H)] precluding workers’ compensation coverage for an employee when: (1) the employee is a resident of another state; (2) the employee is insured in a state...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
United States: Employer May Offset Workers’ Comp Benefits Against Amounts Owed Under Long-Term Disability Plan
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by a U.S. District Court judge that held, as a matter of law, that an employer was entitled to offset an injured worker’s PPD workers’ compensation benefits against the worker’s long...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Opt-Out Lessons From Lone Star State
Shining the Real Light on So-Called Texas Opt Outs By Thomas A. Robinson, co-author Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law As Lex Larson and I point out in the opening article in Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis , 2015...
seemlessweb
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Workers’ Comp Agency Declares Oklahoma Opt-Out Statute Unconstitutional
The Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission’s decision may ultimately have set up a collision between ERISA preemption and the Oklahoma State Constitution By Michael C. Duff, Assoc. Dean of Student Programs and External Relations, and...
Larson's Spotlight
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Five Recent Workers’ Comp Cases You Should Know About (9/9/2011) - Worker Fails to Show Wage Loss, Asbestosis Claim Fails
Larson's Spotlight on Asbestosis, Subrogation, Joint Employee, Pension, and Intentional Misrepresentation . Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's Workers'...
LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
8 Myths and Facts About Workers’ Compensation (August 2016)
The LexisNexis Legal Newsroom Workers’ Compensation Law has interviewed leading experts from different segments of the workers’ compensation industry to tell us some common myths and facts about workers’ compensation. Note that the myths...
LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Tackling the Elephant in the Room: Exclusive Remedy
How I spent my time at the National Workers’ Compensation & Disability Conference discussing the exclusive remedy doctrine By Deborah G. Kohl, Esq. As all workers’ compensation practitioners know exclusive remedy is the linchpin...
LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Oklahoma Opt Outs and ERISA
Proponents of the recently passed Oklahoma workers’ compensation reforms proclaim that the opt out provisions provide an alternative to the newly formed administrative system for processing injured worker claims and do not require that alternative...
Harvey L. Frutkin
over 10 years ago
Tax Law
Federal Taxation
Covered Service Provider Disclosures
by Harvey L. Frutkin, J.D. Partner: The Frutkin Law Firm, PLC, Phoenix, Arizona. ... The furnishing of goods, services, or facilities between a plan and a "party in interest" to the plan is generally prohibited under ERISA. [ERISA §...
Jennifer Jordan
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Opt Outs to Workers’ Compensation: The Real Disconnect in What Is Being Said and What Is Being Implemented
By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq., General Counsel, MEDVAL, LLC The National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference generally serves as a pretty good barometer of what the industry focus will be in the upcoming year and it is evident that...
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