A former corrections worker agreed to plead guilty to one count of workers’ compensation fraud and to pay $40,000 in restitution, New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang announced.
Jennifer Bardin-Lapan,…
A California man convicted of workers’ compensation fraud was ordered to pay $132,023 in restitution, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Gustavo Cisneros was ordered during a restitution hearing on…
A divided North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that an off-duty officer was not jointly employed by the county and the construction company that contracted with the sheriff’s department to secure…
West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that an injured firefighter’s claim for benefits should not have been closed before he had fully recovered from the conditions that were newly added…
The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that exclusivity barred the entirety of a worker’s civil claims against her employer for her injuries from being attacked by a disgruntled customer.
Case: Peachstate…
A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his injuries from a trench collapse.
Case: O’Donnell v. Rocklyn…