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Watson v. Waste Mgmt.

Attorney's Fees, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
A petition for writ of prohibition is denied over a claim that a judge of compensation claims abandoned the role of neutral arbiter in a hearing to...

Arnold v. Florida's Blood Ctrs., Inc.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An order of a judge of compensation claims denying claimant temporary partial disability benefits on grounds she left her employment voluntarily is...

Old Ben Coal Co. v. Office of Workers' Comp. Programs

Administrative Law, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Petition for review of an award of black lung benefits to the widow of a coal miner is dismissed where the plaintiff-employer was no longer a real...

Lane v. Sims Portex/Smiths Group

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An appeal from an adverse order in a workers' compensation matter is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction due to the untimely filing of the notice of...

State Comp. Ins. Fund v. Workers' Comp. App. Bd.

Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Workers' compensation award to respondent, a logger who was injured in course of his work, is annulled as the award was improperly calculated using...

Virginia Sur. Co. v. N. Ins. Co. of New York

Insurance Law, Workers' Compensation
In a workers' compensation coverage matter where both plaintiff and defendant had insured the same company, summary judgement in favor of defendant is...

Smith v. Workers' Comp. App. Bd.

Attorney's Fees, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An employee's attorney who succeeds in enforcing the employee's workers' compensation award, which includes future medical care, may receive attorney...

Somers v. Demco

Administrative Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Workers' Compensation Law section 15(8)(f), as interpreted by the Court of Appeals, provides that the statutory 104-week time limitation for filing a...

Dep't of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles v. Romano

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction as the order on appeal was not a reviewable adverse order.

Hazealeferiou v. Labor Ready

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Dismissal of a petition for benefits in a workers' compensation case is affirmed where competent substantial evidence supported a JCC's findings that...