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The Top 10 Bizarre Workers’ Compensation Cases for 2014
Posted on 31 Dec 2014 by Thomas A. Robinson

Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , is a leading commentator and expert on the law of workers’ compensation. For the past five or six years, I’ve shared... Read More

Tags: knife , drug addiction , operating room , family argument , psychiatric treatment , social outing , surgical procedure , drunk , murder , post-traumatic stress disorder , surgeon , undocumented worker , Gun , food store , shooting , quadriplegic , tax fraud , recreational drug use , bizarre workers' comp cases , rainmaking , motorcycle accident , traveling employee , Marketing , adjustment disorder , PTSD , robber , business-related networking , personal motive , dune buggy , client entertainment , employer’s parking lot , murder-for-hire , physical violence , robbery , inpatient care , attendant care , physician's assistant , heart attack

West Virginia Supreme Court Continues Trend of Weakening Medical Management Guidelines
Posted on 30 Mar 2012 by H. Dill Battle, III

By H. Dill Battle, III In a new reported decision the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals addressed the addition of psychiatric diagnoses as a secondary condition to a compensable injury. In Hale v. WVOIC and Rockspring Development, Inc . , No... Read More

Tags: West Virginia , psychiatric treatment , John Hale v. West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner , psychiatric diagnoses , psychiatric condition , Dill Battle , Rockspring Development , Medical Management Guidelines , psychiatric disorder , impairment ratings , expert psychiatric report

California WCAB Panel Denies Psychiatric Benefits as Compensable Consequence to Head Injury
Posted on 20 Aug 2010 by Goldman, Magdalin & Krikes, LLP

Panel Decision Denies Industrial Psychiatric Treatment Notwithstanding Medical Evidence That Such Treatment Was Medically Necessary. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, in a panel decision issued July 7, 2010 , determined that there was... Read More

Tags: psychiatric benefits , psychiatric treatment , compensable consequence theory , industrial injury

West Virginia Supreme Court Continues Trend of Weakening Medical Management Guidelines
Posted on 30 Mar 2012 by H. Dill Battle, III

By H. Dill Battle, III In a new reported decision the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals addressed the addition of psychiatric diagnoses as a secondary condition to a compensable injury. In Hale v. WVOIC and Rockspring Development, Inc . , No... Read More

Tags: West Virginia , psychiatric treatment , John Hale v. West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner , psychiatric diagnoses , psychiatric condition , Dill Battle , Rockspring Development , Medical Management Guidelines , psychiatric disorder , impairment ratings , expert psychiatric report