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Did Rehash of Termination Petition Require Employer to Pay Claimant’s Legal Fees?

Employers that hope to terminate an individual’s workers’ compensation benefits based on the employee’s voluntary withdrawal from the workforce need to think carefully before taking that step. Filing a petition to stop benefits could end […]

Judge Declines to Permanently Disqualify Claimant Despite Video of His Running Business 

What Went Wrong? Video footage is essential when seeking to terminate workers’ compensation benefits based on a claimant’s misrepresentation of his injuries or ability to work. A case involving an employee who had been collecting […]

Did Attempt to Terminate WC Benefits Require Employer to Pay Worker’s Legal Fees?

What Do You Think? Employers that try to terminate an individual’s workers’ compensation benefits based on their voluntary withdrawal from the workforce need to think carefully before taking that step. Filing a petition to end […]

The Ga. Rycroft Defense – When a Workers’ Compensation Claimant Misrepresents

Do You Know the Rule? The Georgia Supreme Court articulated a three-part test for determining when fraud in the inducement will bar an employee’s claim for benefits. In Georgia Electric Company v. Rycroft, 378 SE2d 111 (Ga. 1989), […]

Was Truck Driver’s Beating Random Road Rage or Compensable Injury?

What Do You Think? A compensable injury must arise out of employment. A case involving a commercial truck driver for a Virginia company addresses the question of whether a road rage incident can be sufficiently […]

Did Comment about Coworker’s Mother Make Ensuing Fight Purely Personal?

What Do You Think? An employer can sometimes avoid a negligence lawsuit by demonstrating that the workers’ compensation act applies to the injury, making those benefits the employee’s sole available remedy.  One case, in addition […]