The Supreme Court of Kentucky, construing the state’s agricultural employee exemption [see Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 342.650(5) and 342.0011(18)], reversed a split decision of the state’s Court of Appeals...
KY Supreme Court Construes Agricultural Employee Exemption KY Supreme Court Construes Agricultural Employee ExemptionBankruptcy 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 ChallengesThe U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina, construing the state statute on exemptions, held that a Chapter 13 Debtor was not entitled to claim an exemption...
Land and Mobile Home Purchased With Workers' Comp Proceeds by NC Bankruptcy Debtor is Not Exempt Land and Mobile Home Purchased With Workers' Comp Proceeds by NC Bankruptcy Debtor is Not ExemptLast Friday, answering a question certified to it by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Supreme Court of Illinois held that under section 21 of the...
IL Supreme Court: Workers’ Compensation Settlement Proceeds Are Beyond Reach of Health Care Providers Who Treated the Worker IL Supreme Court: Workers’ Compensation Settlement Proceeds Are Beyond Reach of Health Care Providers Who Treated the WorkerMay Unpaid Healthcare Providers Reach Workers’ Compensation Claim Settlement? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently certified to the Illinois Supreme Court an important question regarding the...
7th Circuit Certifies Important Exemption Question to Illinois Supreme Court 7th Circuit Certifies Important Exemption Question to Illinois Supreme CourtAn officer of a Florida corporation, who elected to be exempt from workers’ compensation coverage [see § 440.02(15)(b)(1), Fla. Stat. (2008)], and whose “employing” corporation was a subcontractor on a...
Exempt Florida Corporate Officer of Subcontractor Barred From Suing General Contractor Exempt Florida Corporate Officer of Subcontractor Barred From Suing General Contractor