Court Says Board Erred in Rejecting Treating Physician’s Opinion
The Oregon Court of Appeals overturned a denial of benefits for a worker’s back condition, finding the Workers’ Compensation Board failed, without reason, to defer to the opinion of a…
Worker Cannot Get Additional Benefits, Treatment for Back Injury
The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld a denial of additional benefits and treatment to a worker for a back injury, with one judge writing separately to criticize the way the deferential…
Roofing Contractor Fined $501k for Willful Fall Exposures
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued three egregious willful citations, five serious citations and one other-than-serious citation to an Augusta, Maine-based contractor for willfully exposing employees to fall…
Defendants Get Partial Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim, Not Indemnification Claim
A New York appellate court ruled that the defendants in a Labor Law action were entitled to summary judgment dismissing some of the injured worker’s claims, but they were not…
No Summary Judgment in Labor Law Claim for Worker Who Fell
A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should not have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his injuries from a fall off the stairs of…
Split Court Overturns Summary Judgment on Statutory Employer Defense
A narrowly divided Superior Court of Pennsylvania overturned a grant of summary judgment to two corporate entities who asserted a statutory employer defense to an injured worker’s tort claim.
Case: Dobransky…