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Volunteer Firefighters and Course of Employment | Iowa Supreme Court rules volunteer firefighters cannot be summoned to duty by circumstances |
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A Note From the Editor |  | Dear WC Professionals:
I suppose the good news out of Florida last week at the FWCI Conference is that Robert P. Hartwig, President of the Insurance Information Institute, predicted we will not have a double-dip recession. Read more.
Economic recovery will be slow, but can workers' comp systems survive in the meantime?
Sincerely, Robin E. Kobayashi, J.D.
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Workers' Comp Profile |
Edgar Romano, a New York City attorney with Brecher Fishman Pasternack Walsh Tilker & Ziegler, is a past President of the Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group (WILG) and past Vice Chair of the Workers' Compensation Section of the American Association of Justice. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of N.Y. Workers' Compensation Bar Association. He has been an active trial lawyer in the area of worker's compensation and lectures throughout the country. He is on the Advisory Committee to the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program at Mt. Sinai Hospital and is listed in "Who's Who in American Law".
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Larson's spotlight: 5 recent cases you should know about |
Larson's Spotlight reports noteworthy workers' comp cases each week. This list was compiled by Thomas A. Robinson, a staff writer for Larson's Workers' Compensation Law, the nation's leading authority on workers' compensation law.
> Read the summaries and court decisions.
#1 7th Circuit: Jury Verdict in Retaliatory Discharge Case Overturned by Federal Court
#2 WA: Insurer Has No Subrogation Right in Injured Worker's Third Party Settlement Related to "Pain and Suffering"
#3 CA: Worker Gets New Qualified Medical Evaluator Based upon QME's Ex Parte Communication With Defense Counsel
#4 IA: Volunteer Fireman May Not Be "Summoned" by Circumstances-Only by an Appropriate Official
#5 OH: Injuries Sustained in Beer Fight at Work Held Not Compensable
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blog round up |

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter - Recent Arrests, Charges, Convictions, Investigations 8/19/2010. Read it.
Texas Appeals Panel Decision No. 100201 - Disability, by Stuart Colburn. Read it.
Bath Iron Works v. Fields, Weighing the Evidence, by Stephen Embry. Read it.
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Unusualness in Emotional Strain Cases--Emotional Tension Suffered by Arab Office-worker in Period Following Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 Found Not Compensable. In the Matter of Young v. Pentax Precision Instrument Corp., 57 A.D.3d 1323, 870 N.Y.S.2d 151 (2008), a New York appellate court affirmed a determination by the state's Workers' Compensation Board that a claimant failed to establish her claim of mental injury when she alleged that she had been subjected to repeated episodes of harassment after September 11, 2001 because of her Egyptian ethnicity and, as a result, suffered a mental injury. While claimant testified that she was cursed at and struck in the head by one of her coworkers, subjected to offensive anti-Arab cartoons that were placed on a bulletin board, repeatedly ignored and belittled by her supervisor in front of others, and asked by her supervisor if she had turned her family in to the FBI for investigation, the employer's witnesses presented an entirely different story. The differences in testimony presented credibility issues for the Board to resolve. The appellate court could not weigh the evidence. See Ch. 44, § 44.05[2] n.19.1. |
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