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The claimant violated N.Y. Workers’ Comp. Law § 114-a by knowingly making a material misrepresentation, which disqualified him from receiving future indemnity benefits, where surveillance videos showed him stooped over and walking very slowly...

Where videotape surveillance indicated an injured employee was capable of activities that were substantially more strenuous than those that she told her treating physician that she was capable of performing, the Board was justified in finding the employee...

Where a claimant, former firefighter, represented during a functional capacity evaluation that he was unable to lift and/or carry any weighted objects, crouch, reach for an object, or complete any of the balance tests required during the evaluation, yet...

A New York appellate court held that substantial evidence supported a determination by the state Board that claimant had made false statements on a questionnaire for the purpose of obtaining workers’ compensation benefits [see N.Y. Work. Comp. Law...

Just 12 hours after a video tape of Ravens Ray Rice beating his now wife on February 15, 2014 in a hotel in Atlantic City was published by TMZ , the Ravens had terminated his contract and the NFL had indefinitely suspended him from playing for any NFL...

Can a non-governmental employer in the State of New York lawfully make a video recording of its employees in the workplace without the employees’ knowledge? The short answer is that a private employer in New York lawfully may engage in secret, video...

The Baltimore Ravens are not your typical employer. The NFL is not your typical industry. That being said, the Ravens' handling of the Ray Rice matter is a lesson in what not to do. In hindsight, the organization realized its initial reaction was...

On Monday, the NFL indefinitely suspended, and the Baltimore Ravens terminated the contract of, Ray Rice after TMZ published security camera footage of Rice hitting his then-fiancée. What’s surprising about this story isn’t that the...

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and...

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and...

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and...

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and...

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and...

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and...

Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and...