The Michigan Compensation Appellate Commission’s practice of allowing a recoupment for overpayment of workers’ compensation only where the employer or insurer could show fraud on the part of the injured worker is contrary to statute [see MCL 418.354(9)], held a...
Recently, a split panel of commissioners with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) allowed a temporary disability overpayment from monies that had accrued as a direct consequence of defendant’s failure to properly pay an earlier award of temporary disability...
Here’s the third batch of advanced postings for March 2015 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2015 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. Warner...
In Zuniga v. County of Los Angeles , 2014 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS --, a split WCAB panel held that an applicant deputy sheriff was entitled to two periods of Labor Code § 4850 and temporary disability benefits (one for industrial injury to his knees, spine...
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR DECISIONS Carr v. Verizon New England, Inc. , Opinion No. 8-11WC (Apr. 29, 2011). On cross motions for summary judgment Claimant's death claim fails as Claimant fails to show that his trip on a scheduled vacation date was related to...