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Marshall Dennehey

Appellate Division Finds That Paid Status During a Break Does Not Mandate Workers’ Compensation Coverage and Affirmed the...

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Latshaw v. Lakewood Twp. Police Dep’t, No. A-3702-21 (Mar. 25, 2024) - The petitioner appealed the dismissal of her workers’ compensation claim. She was working for the respondent as a dispatcher, and on her meal break in...more

Snell & Wilmer

SCOTUS Explores Tribal Sovereign Immunity in Lewis and Clarke Fender Bender

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On April 25, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Lewis v. Clarke, a case involving tribal sovereign immunity. The Court held that when a tribal employee is sued in his or her individual capacity, that...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Commonwealth Court Expands the Scope of Good Samaritan Amendment to the Workers’ Compensation Act

In 2003, the Pennsylvania General Assembly amended Section 601 of the Workers’ Compensation Act to expand the definition of the word “employee” to include employees who, while in the course and scope of their employment,...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

New West Virginia Case Finds an Injury at Work Not a Result of Employment

Morton v. West Virginia Office of Ins. Com’r, 2013 WL 5508553, -- S.E.2d ---- (Oct. 4, 2013) (per curiam). Affirming Workers’ Compensation Board of Review’s denial of compensability. In Morton, the claimant injured her...more

K&L Gates LLP

When 'On-the-Job' is Not Necessarily On the Job

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A majority of the High Court (4:2) has handed down a significant decision in Comcare v PVYW [2013] HCA 41, which has clarified the meaning of a "work-related injury" and closely examined what was said in Hatzminanolis v ANI...more

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