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You know the rule of evidence. Mentioning the availability of insurance, during a personal injury trial, is a big N-O. The rule is designed to prevent prejudice in the verdict, which might result if the jury is aware that an insurance company, and not...

Study Shows Whites Receive Higher Benefits Than Other Groups for Comparable Harm Despite the basic workers’ compensation principle that every claimant should receive equal medical and wage-loss benefits for the same type of compensable injury...

Here’s the fourth batch of advanced postings for December 2014 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the cases to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2014 LexisNexis. All rights...

A Mississippi appellate court reversed a decision of the state’s Workers' Compensation Commission that had sanctioned a claimant’s attorney for issuing a subpoena duces tecum to the employer’s medical expert in which the attorney...

The seminal causation paper will never be written. This fact provides the author at least some comfort as this paper briefly wades into the agenda-driven minefield of causation in a workers’ compensation claim. Causation, like beauty, is often...

Study Shows Whites Receive Higher Benefits Than Other Groups for Comparable Harm Despite the basic workers’ compensation principle that every claimant should receive equal medical and wage-loss benefits for the same type of compensable injury...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) Mounting a large-scale bias claim against a huge company will be more difficult in light of a Supreme Court decision that found no convincing proof of discrimination on which to allow a class action against retail giant Wal-Mart...