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Pittsburgh & Conneaut Dock Co. v. Dir., Office of Workers Comp. Programs

Attorney's Fees, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In the context of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, attorney's fees cannot be assessed under 33 U.S.C. section 928(a) when an...

Green v. Bd of County Comm'rs

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Summary judgment for defendants in a drug-lab technician/detention officer's employment-related 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state-law action is...

Guevara v. Doormark, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an action brought against an employer by an employee injured while operating a power saw, summary judgment for the employer is affirmed where the...

Butler v. Bay Ctr.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
For purposes of a worker's compensation claimant's procedural right to request a one-time "change of physician during the course of treatment," before...

Barrios v. Sch. Bd. of Broward County

Attorney's Fees, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An order denying a workers' compensation claimant's amended verified petition for attorney's fees is affirmed except to the extent that it ruled on...

Hanson v. Florida Hosp.

Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
A workers' compensation order determining that claimant's petition for benefits was barred by the statute of limitations in Florida Statutes section...

Hale v. Shear Express, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a workers' compensation case, an award of appellate attorneys' fees is reversed where no competent substantial evidence was presented to the judge...

Hodges v. Mack Trucks, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Product Liability, Remedies, Workers' Compensation
In appeals arising out of a product-liability action for injuries sustained because of a secondary collision in Texas, involving a tractor-trailer...

Huseman v. Icicle Seafoods, Inc.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Summary judgment against plaintiff finding that his Jones Act and unseaworthiness claims against defendant were time-barred and that his maintenance...

An Indep. Home Support Serv. v. Superior Ct. (State Comp. Ins. Fund)

Administrative Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Petition for writ of mandate claiming that petitioner, a referral agency that provides domestic workers, is exempt from requirements of maintaining...