A New York appellate court recently held a plaintiff was bound by his attorney’s open-court stipulation with defendants that the case had been settled for $325,000. Plaintiff could not later declare the settlement “null and void” because there...
Overview of Current Issues and Developments in Administrative Law Judges’ Decisions [n1] By Yelena Zaslavskaya, Senior Attorney for Longshore, Office of Administrative Law Judges, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. Many disputed Longshore claims[n2...
By Colleen S. Casey Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved. Listed below are several issues to consider before submitting a document for approval by a workers’ compensation judge (WCJ). Walk Through Document Defined: A “walk-through” document is defined...