A Louisiana appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment to two National Guardsmen awarding them a lump-sum payment of benefits for injuries they sustained in service in Afghanistan.
Case: May…
If the volume of independent medical review decision letters issued through the first half of 2022 holds for the rest of the year, determinations on disputed medical treatments in California’s…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations to two companies for again failing to provide fall protection to workers on residential roofs, one of which is the result…
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld a denial of a police officer’s request to amend the description of his work injury and upheld the grant of his employer’s petition to…
The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld a denial of an Amazon warehouse employee’s claim that she had suffered a compression fracture on her second day of work.
Case: Olsen v. Industrial…
The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a deputy sheriff for injuries she sustained in a training exercise, finding her prior settlement for one injury did…