Where a Wisconsin worker settled a contested workers’ compensation claim with his employer and its insurer by means of a compromise settlement agreement that called for the payment of $120,000 to the claimant, $30,000....
Bankruptcy Court Nixes WI Claimant’s Effort to Avoid Paying Med Providers Bankruptcy Court Nixes WI Claimant’s Effort to Avoid Paying Med ProvidersA federal district court, sitting in Wisconsin, has affirmed a decision by a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge that found $400,000 paid into the trust account of an injured worker’s attorney, and...
Federal Court: Settlement Agreement Created Express Trust Favoring Injured Worker’s Medical Providers Federal Court: Settlement Agreement Created Express Trust Favoring Injured Worker’s Medical ProvidersA Mississippi appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission that denied—without a hearing—an injured worker’s petition to settle and close out the medical portion of his...
MS Court Affirms Denial of Quadriplegic’s Settlement Agreement MS Court Affirms Denial of Quadriplegic’s Settlement AgreementBankruptcy 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 ChallengesPart of SSDI’s Fiscal Weakness Tied to Cost Shifting from Workers’ Compensation In an important recent paper, Professor John Burton and his colleague, Steve Guo, argue that significant fiscal improvements...
Does Long-Term Strength of the SSDI Trust Fund Depend Upon Changes to State Workers’ Comp Programs? Does Long-Term Strength of the SSDI Trust Fund Depend Upon Changes to State Workers’ Comp Programs?Characterizing the language of a workers’ compensation settlement agreement that included a provision for a Medicare set-aside annuity (MSA) as “sloppy” and “imprecise” and quoting novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s advice to...
What A Difference a Word Makes: Illinois Court Remands Case Because Settlement Agreement Ambiguous What A Difference a Word Makes: Illinois Court Remands Case Because Settlement Agreement Ambiguous