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Musk lawsuit attorneys peg fees at $5.6 billion
DOVER, Del. — The lawyers who successfully argued that a massive pay package for Tesla CEO Elon Musk was illegal and should be voided have asked the presiding judge to […]
Workers’ Compensation – Initially Unknown Cause – Difficult Diagnosis – Rotator Cuff Tear
It took a while for claimant’s doctors to figure out that her chest, shoulder and arm pain were coming from a work-related shoulder injury and even longer for them to […]
Workers’ Compensation – Maximum Medical Improvement – Continued Medical Benefits – Back & Knee Injury – Temporary Total Disability
Even if claimant had reached maximum medical improvement, this was not dispositive as to whether she was entitled to continued medical treatment. In any event, the record showed that claimant […]
Worker who suffered injuries rewarded $1.25M
On March 25, 2021, the plaintiff, truck driver Bryan Curtis Roberson, was picking up a load in Georgetown, S.C., for Mercer Transportation Co., when he suffered substantial injuries after being […]
Worker who was struck in eye at work settles for $650K
A worker who was struck in the eye while at work reached a $650,000 settlement. The plaintiff was working at a major manufacturing plant in the lower part of […]
Workers’ Compensation – Repetitive Motion Injury – Firefighter – Timely Reporting
Where the record shows that the claimant’s duties as a firefighter included lifting heavy objects on a regular basis, the claimant’s evidence showed a repetitive-motion injury to his back. It […]
Workers’ Compensation – Causation – Prior Back Injury – Fraud in the Application Defense
While working for Richtex Brick in 1997, Claimant suffered a back injury which resolved. When he applied to work for respondent Michelin North America in 2017, Claimant did not list […]
Workers’ Compensation – Prior Back Injury – Application Falsehood – 20-Year Gap
Although the respondent-employer showed that the claimant-employee falsely said on his post-hire medical questionnaire that he had never sought medical attention for a prior back injury or back pain, and […]
Workers’ Compensation – Appeals – Treating Physician – TTD
In a 2014 order, a single commissioner’s order summarily stated that the respondent-Claimant was not entitled to benefits under S.C. Code Ann. §§ 42-9-10 (total disability), -20 (partial disability), -30 […]
Workers’ Compensation – Back Injury – General Disability Claim – Radiating Pain & Depression
The Claimant suffered a compensable back injury and was assigned a 40 percent impairment rating to the spine and a 36 percent rating to the whole person. The record contains […]
Workers’ Compensation – Death Benefits – Causation – Smoke Inhalation & Influenza
The Appellate Panel of the Workers’ Compensation Commission mischaracterized the medical evidence of causation and ignored other evidence that the smoke-inhalation injury, which the decedent-deputy suffered during three 12-hour shifts […]
Workers’ comp case settled for $1.15M after severe car crash
A plaintiff who T-boned an oncoming vehicle has settled their workers’ compensation claim against their insurance carrier for $1.15 million, their attorneys report. Christopher Hart of Hart Law in […]
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- Business Court judges trawl for customers
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- Tort – Business Tort – Va. Computer Crimes Act – Trade Secrets
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- When is a PIP an adverse employment action?
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- A useful patent management government notice
- The third option: Why your best employees are quietly losing their edge
- ‘AI won’t take your job’ and other things CEOs say before the layoffs
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