all - Opinion Summaries

Bready v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation, Workers' Compensation
By memorandum, it is held that the Appellate Division properly granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint in each of...

Matter of Zamora

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
A claim for workers' compensation benefits is denied, where: 1) the Workers' Compensation Board need not infer, from the finding that a claimant...

Matter of Schmidt

Injury & Tort Law, Workers' Compensation
In a case in which a worker applied for and received workers' compensation benefits at the maximum for hip and back injuries, and also received a...

US v. Nicholson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Benefits, Workers' Compensation
In a prosecution for the use of false statements or fraud to obtain Federal Employment Compensation Act benefits, the judgment of conviction after a...

State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a case in which an employee who had been employed less than six months sought workers' compensation benefits for psychiatric injury in addition to...

Matter of Bissell

Attorney's Fees, Insurance Law, Workers' Compensation
In a case in which a successful workers' compensation claimant obtained an award for future medical expenses against a third party, the Appellate...

McCarty v. Verizon New England, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Injury & Tort Law, Sanctions, Workers' Compensation
An award of attorney's fees to the defendants as a sanction against the plaintiff's attorney is affirmed, where: 1) the plaintiff's tort suit was...

Barrett Business Services, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Workers' Compensation
In a dispute over whether an employer remained liable to a former employee for proceeds of a settlement of a workers' compensation claim when a check...

Roberts v. Sea-Land Services, Inc.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a suit under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act for injuries sustained in 2002 at an Alaska marine terminal while working for the...

Sanchez v. Brooke

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Workers' Compensation
In a suit against the estate of a home health care patient stemming from her caregiver's injuries sustained in an attempt to rescue the patient from a...