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The New Jersey Appellate Court reverses dismissal of the workers’ compensation claim under premises rule.
The Appellate Division reversed the Workers’ Compensation Judge’s dismissal of a claim based on the conclusion that the accident had not taken place in the course of the petitioner’s employment.
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Judge did not abuse her discretion in imposing a 50% penalty against the employer for refusing to pay fatal claim benefits because her decision awarding benefits contained an incorrect benefit rate and there was no evidence regarding the decedent’s wages.
A workers’ compensation judge issued a decision granting a fatal claim petition and ordered payment of ongoing weekly benefits to the claimant at the rate of 50% of the decedent’s average weekly wage at the time he last worked in 2010.
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Commonwealth Court upholds a decision to enforce a prior judicially approved C&R Agreement wherein the claimant agreed to cooperate by signing Medicare Set-Aside paperwork and later refused.
The claimant settled his workers’ compensation claim by a Compromise and Release Agreement (C&R).
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In the October issue of the What’s Hot, issued on September 29, 2021, we reported that the Disaster Declaration, which suspended Section 449 of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act requiring the attestation of the claimant's signature on a C
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The Board holds that employer, not the Fund, must pay the claimant compensation for temporary total disability for a gap period that resulted from employer’s clerical error in filing the termination petition.
This case is interesting given the recent development where the Fund has become very aggressive in seeking reimbursement for compensation that it has paid during the pendency of a termination petition.
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Personal representative’s status will revert back to petition for benefits’ filing date, even though claimant’s counsel filed this petition and attached an older fraud acknowledgement signed by the decedent prior to his death.
Before the injured worker died, petitions for benefits had been filed identifying a January 26, 2018, date of accident. Those petitions were dismissed shortly after the injured employee’s death.
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The Appellate Court affirms dismissal of claim for plaintiff’s failure to demonstrate his injury was in the course and scope of his employment.
The Appellate Division affirmed a workers’ compensation decision to dismiss a claim petition with prejudice and deny the petitioner’s motion for benefits.
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An attempt to reopen a claim under Protz II is time barred under § 413(a) of the Act as the attempt was made more than three years from the last date benefit payments were received.
The claimant underwent an Impairment Rating Evaluation (IRE) on April 28, 2003.
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Reinstatement of benefits was retroactive to the date of a post-Protz II reinstatement petition filed in 2019 and not retroactive to the date of the 2009 IRE.
The claimant sustained a work injury in June of 2006. In June of 2009, he was seen for an Impairment Rating Evaluation (IRE) and given an impairment rating of less than 50%.
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