Bankruptcy Court Nixes WI Claimant’s Effort to Avoid Paying Med Providers Where a Wisconsin worker settled a contested workers’ compensation claim with his employer and its insurer by means of...
Opinion Mondays: Settlements in Contested Cases Can be Fraught With Equitable Challenges Opinion Mondays: Settlements in Contested Cases Can be Fraught With Equitable ChallengesIn a divided decision, the Supreme Court of Minnesota held that an injured undocumented worker had raised a genuine issue of material fact as to whether an employer had discharged...
Rock and a Hard Place: Placing Injured Undocumented Worker on Unpaid Leave May Be Retaliatory Discharge Rock and a Hard Place: Placing Injured Undocumented Worker on Unpaid Leave May Be Retaliatory DischargeIn a decision that has been not been designated for publication, the Court of Appeals of Virginia held that an employee cured his refusal of selective employment (“light work”) where,...
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