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Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that for purposes of filing a § 108(r) firefighter cancer claim, § 301(f)’s requirement the claim be made within 600 weeks after the last date of employment controls.
The claimant was a firefighter for the employer for 29 years, retiring in September of 2006. In 2015, he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.
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The claimant was in course of employment when she was injured from a fall while walking between a parking spot leased by her employer and employer’s building as the area was part of the employer’s premises.
In this case, the claimant slipped and fell on her walk into work from an employer-paid parking space while trying to avoid ice. The spot was in a public parking lot, located behind the employer’s building.
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In four back-to-back appeals, the Appellate Division finds the triennial redetermination of average current monthly earnings was not applicable in New Jersey as a reverse offset state.
In four back-to-back appeals, the Appellate Division again affirmed the workers’ compensation court’s decisions, noting the petitioners were not entitled to a redetermination of benefits.
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According to Appellate Division, judges are in the best position to assess credibility and giving more weight to one expert’s opinion is not a basis to reverse a judgment.
The Appellate Division affirmed a workers’ compensation court order denying additional medical and temporary benefits to the petitioner. The petitioner slipped and fell on April 1, 2016, and a left knee injury was accepted as compensable.
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The Appellate Court affirms grant of summary judgment for plaintiffs’ failure to establish intentional wrong.
In these consolidated wrongful death actions, the Appellate Division affirmed the Law Division’s grant of summary judgment to the defendants.
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Because claimant’s mental injury manifested itself within six months of reaching physical MMI and claimant was not receiving impairment benefits for the physical injury after reaching that point, the statutory cap in section 440.093(3) does not apply.
The claimant was injured on January 7, 2019, while working in a correctional facility after an inmate attacked her, causing neck and throat injuries.
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Kaseya Data Breach Is Another Signal to Cyber Underwriters About the Dangers of Ransomware Attacks
Previously published in the July 19, 2021, post of PLUSBlog. Reprinted with permission.
Defense Digest, Vol. 27, No.
State University Nurse’s Actions Did Not Meet “State-Created Danger” Standard
Defense Digest, Vol. 27, No.