A divided West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a worker was not entitled to an increase in his permanent partial disability award for occupational pneumoconiosis.
Case: Hoskins v. American Electric Power…
A New York appellate court overturned a denial of benefits to a diabetic worker for the loss of his toe after he stepped on a nail.
Case: Matter of Irizarry v.
The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that an injured firefighter paramedic was time-barred from pursuing applications for additional benefits more than six years after he returned to full-duty employment after…
Goldberg Segalla added Erica B. Lewis as a partner and Kalie L. Chumley as an associate in the firm’s workers’ compensation defense group in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Erica B. Lewis
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The Wyoming Supreme Court upheld a denial of benefits to an injured caretaker due to his intoxication at the time of his injury.
Case: Nagel v. State ex rel. Department of…