The execution of a settlement agreement, in which the employee, a residential counselor at a Pennsylvania inpatient psychiatric facility, received a $40,000 lump sum from the employer in connection with injuries the counselor sustained when she was attacked... Read More
Citing Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , and stressing that a surviving spouse’s death benefits claim is not derivative of the injured worker’s claim, a Maryland appellate court found that a settlement agreement and full release... Read More
By Mark Popolizio, Esquire Section 111 Senior Legal Counsel Crowe Paradis Services Corporation The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement a new Self-Calculated Final Conditional Payment Amount option beginning in February 2012... Read More
By: Mark Popolizio, Esquire, Crowe Paradis Services Corporation In Bruton v. Carnival Corporation , 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64416 (S.D. Florida May 2, 2012) the court ruled that a liability Medicare set-aside (L-MSA) was not required as part of the settlement... Read More
By Jennifer C. Jordan, Esq., General Counsel, MEDVAL, LLC Medicare set-asides have become an albatross for all insurers. And despite all their efforts to do exactly what CMS wants in the interest of protecting the Medicare Trust funds, CMS is constantly... Read More
Larson's Spotlight on Fraud, Unfair Settlement Practices, Penalty for Late Payment, and Altercation. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's Workers'... Read More
Here’s the latest batch of advanced postings for the July 2016 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2016 LexisNexis. All rights... Read More
Where an employee sustained a serious work-related injury—a torn thoracic aorta—in February 2006, and died almost four years later, having signed a release as to all future claims against the employer for an agreed upon lump-sum payment, his... Read More
Under the West Virginia subrogation statute [W. Va. Code § 23–2A–1], a party is entitled to a lien only to the extent that it has actually paid a sum of money. Accordingly, where a mining electrician suffered catastrophic injuries when... Read More
A Missouri appellate court held that the state’s Industrial Relations Commission’s power to order an employee (and his spouse) to repay some $41,000 in medical benefits following the successful settlement of a third-party civil action for... Read More
In Borbeck v. ACE Building Maintenance , 2015 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS --, the WCAB affirmed the WCJ’s order requiring the defendant to pay EDD $33,921.68 in satisfaction of EDD’s lien for unemployment compensation paid to the applicant... Read More
By Robin E. Kobayashi, J.D., LexisNexis Legal & Professional Operations, and Thomas P. Kieselbach, Esq., Cousineau McGuire Chartered, Minneapolis, MN The Minnesota Department of Labor & Industry’s (DLI) newly released survey on “... Read More
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin affirmed a decision compelling a plaintiff/injured employee to accept a settlement offered in a third-party civil action he had filed against an alleged tortfeasor. The employee, who worked for the Village of Fontana, had... Read More
The Commission went too far to resolve a subrogation dispute after a third party settlement and violated due process of the claimant’s spouse when she was not a party to the comp claim. Graham v. Latco Contractors , 2015 MO App. Lexis 379 (lexis... Read More
This list of recent noteworthy cases was compiled by Keith J. Kasper of McCormick, Fitzpatrick, Kasper & Buchard, PC. Julie Charanko long term WC Specialist II has retired, but she is not going far as she is going to continue her work... Read More