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New Jersey Appellate Division finds the decedent, a full-time teacher who died of COVID-19, was an essential employee.
The petitioner filed a dependency claim in which he alleged the decedent (his wife) contracted COVID-19 during the period of occupational exposure while in the course of her employment with the respondent.
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The employers were not required to reimburse a DHS lien for the claimant’s medical treatment until the medical providers submitted the required bills and reports to the employers.
The claimant suffered amputations of both lower extremities. A workers’ compensation judge granted a Claim Petition and directed Dura-Bond, the employer, to pay the claimant’s benefits.
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Claimant’s evidence satisfied the three-prong test to support the Section 301(f) presumption that a firefighter’s chronic myeloid leukemia was caused by workplace exposure to a carcinogen.
The claimant was a firefighter who developed chronic myeloid leukemia that was diagnosed in 2014. He learned his cancer may be related to work while attending a training seminar in 2019.
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Under Section 410 of the Act, the claimant’s widow was not barred from receiving a workers’ compensation judge’s award of specific loss benefits made to a claimant who passed away from his work injuries during litigation.
On October 11, 2011, the claimant sustained a work injury in the nature of incomplete tetraplegia (paralysis of all four limbs), with depression and anxiety, and began receiving temporary total disability (TTD) benefits.
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Legal Update for Special Education Law – Case Law Update
Due to the situation-specific nature of parental involvement in educational decisions, nonparticipation in one decision due to a procedural inadequacy is not automatically a major barrier to a parent’s input in the overall decision-making
Legal Update for Special Education Law – January 2025 is prepared by Marshall Dennehey to provide information on recent legal developments of interest
Ohio Supreme Court Holds Ohio’s Tolling Statute Does Not Violate Federal Commerce Clause as Applied to a Physician Who Leaves the State to Practice Medicine Elsewhere
The Ohio Supreme Court examined the constitutionality of Ohio’s tolling statute, R.C. 2305.15, as it relates to a physician who was sued for medical malpractice.
Case Law Alerts, 1st Quarter, Janu
Pennsylvania Court Rejects Fraudulent Joinder Theory, Keeping Insurance Agent in Case
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Case Law Alerts, 1st Quarter, Janu
Insurance Policies, Including Exclusions, Need to Be Clear and Unambiguous, According to Delaware Court
A Delaware gun dealer, which also operates a shooting range for which it rents firearms, sued its insurer and its insurance broker in a matter arising from the insurer’s refusal to provide defense or indemnification in an underlying lawsuit brough
Case Law Alerts, 1st Quarter, Janu
Motion for Remittitur Denied by Delaware Court Where Verdict Not Deemed Grossly Excessive
The defendant was dropping off his sister (the plaintiff) at a Goodwill store in Wilmington, Delaware.
Case Law Alerts, 1st Quarter, Janu