The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that a worker could not transfer his structured settlement payments from an annuity to resolve his Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act claim.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a deputy sheriff’s entitlement to benefits for his post-traumatic stress disorder ended once his psychiatrist found he no longer met the criteria for the diagnosis.
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A divided Tennessee appellate court elected to ignore the deficiencies in a municipal employer’s briefing to address the merits of a dispute with a former employee and find the partial…
The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled that a grievously injured worker failed to assert a viable intentional tort claim against his employer for sending him to work on a…
The Michigan Court of Appeals revived a worker’s negligence claims against the company that paid him benefits for an on-the-job injury, finding a trial judge used the wrong analysis to…