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According to Appellate Division, judges are in the best position to assess credibility and giving more weight to one expert’s opinion is not a basis to reverse a judgment.
The Appellate Division affirmed a workers’ compensation court order denying additional medical and temporary benefits to the petitioner. The petitioner slipped and fell on April 1, 2016, and a left knee injury was accepted as compensable.
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In four back-to-back appeals, the Appellate Division finds the triennial redetermination of average current monthly earnings was not applicable in New Jersey as a reverse offset state.
In four back-to-back appeals, the Appellate Division again affirmed the workers’ compensation court’s decisions, noting the petitioners were not entitled to a redetermination of benefits.
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The claimant was in course of employment when she was injured from a fall while walking between a parking spot leased by her employer and employer’s building as the area was part of the employer’s premises.
In this case, the claimant slipped and fell on her walk into work from an employer-paid parking space while trying to avoid ice. The spot was in a public parking lot, located behind the employer’s building.
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that for purposes of filing a § 108(r) firefighter cancer claim, § 301(f)’s requirement the claim be made within 600 weeks after the last date of employment controls.
The claimant was a firefighter for the employer for 29 years, retiring in September of 2006. In 2015, he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.
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The effects of the COVID-19 virus on Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation system resulted in Governor Wolf announcing he was suspending parts of Section 413 of the Act relating to the notarization requirement of Form LIBC-751, Notification of Susp
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Medical marijuana still illegal and not allowable under Florida’s workers’ compensation law.
The claimant sought authorization for “referral for medical marijuana” and
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Unemployment compensation is primary and, therefore, not technically an “offset” to temporary partial disability benefits.
In this case, the First District Court of Appeal only addressed the effect
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New Jersey Appellate Division reverses and remands a workers’ compensation court decision for failing to take into consideration a choice-of-law provision.
The Judge of Compensation’s decision denied Supreme Auto Transport’s (resp
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Appellate Division affirms judge’s decision dismissing petitioner’s claim for benefits for an injury that occurred during a recreational/social activity as an employee’s subjective impression of compulsion alone is insufficient.
F&B Garage Door had its annual holiday party on December 23, 2016, for
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