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Judge rules that a prior final compensation order did not predict that permanent total disability benefits would flow from the award in that the claimant intended, but did not, undergo a surgery to alleviate the work-related injury.

The claimant filed a petition for benefits, seeking permanent total disability benefits. What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent legal developments of intere

Claimant injured in car accident while on a morning “lunch break.” Judge denies compensability as the lunch break was purely personal in nature and of no benefit to the employer. Judge also held that neither the special hazard nor dual purpose exceptions

This case involves an employee who took  her lunch break in the morning so that she could take her son to school. What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent legal developments of intere