April 2, 2018
Comments Off on Performer disabled when stunt went wrong, claim mediated – $1.6 Million Settlement
Claimant was a performer who was injured when a planned stunt went wrong. He fell from a height landing flat and hard striking the right side of his face. He was rendered unconscious for an hour. As a result of ...
Tagged with: Deputy Commissioner Angela F. Gibbs Million-Dollar Settlements Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission Workers' Compensation
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June 26, 2017
Comments Off on Man injured while pushing large dumpster, claim settled – $1,287,000 Settlement
Claimant was injured at work pushing a large dumpster in two separate incidents in 2002 and 2003. He underwent five surgeries. He entered into a permanent and total disability award in 2012. He takes several daily medications, uses a wheelchair ...
Tagged with: Brooke Anne Hunter Million-Dollar Settlements Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission Workers' Compensation
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May 29, 2017
Comments Off on Carrier offered more than total payout due to tendered limits – $1.3M Settlement
The claimant, a 32-year-old plumber, was injured on Nov. 20, 2015, when his work van was T-boned by a reckless driver travelling over 100 mph. As a result of the accident, claimant suffered a C2 fracture, a L1 burst fracture ...
Tagged with: Commissioner James J. Szablewicz Million-Dollar Settlements Personal Injury Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission
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November 14, 2016
Comments Off on Worker awarded comp after falling off roof – $1.4 million award
The claimant was working in Harrisonburg at a construction site where a barn was being built. Claimant was working for a small construction company, Escobar Roofing Company, and it was his understanding that he and two other individuals would travel ...
Tagged with: Personal Injury Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission
Read More »Commissioner R. Ferrell Newman of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission has been inducted as a Fellow of the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers. The group held its annual meeting in New Orleans last month. The college honors attorneys who have ...
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Read More »When an employee is off the clock, how far off can he be – time-wise and site-wise – and still collect workers’ comp? A new decision by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission illustrates a difference of opinion on the question. ...
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Read More »The claimant, an employee of A, a contractor, fell from a height. Discovery, motions, a change in venue, and joinder and dismissal of various parties occasioned by added defenses delayed a hearing. In the course of the litigation Nationwide, insurer ...
Tagged with: Million-Dollar Settlements Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission Workers’ Comp
Read More »Online job searches may be the norm nowadays, but lawyers who represent workers’ comp claimants may want to see that they make some in-person visits when seeking work. An employee injured on the job has a duty to market any ...
Tagged with: Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission Workers' Compensation
Read More »Lawyers for medical care providers are being paid from the Virginia birth injury program for their work to get a deceased infant’s claim covered by the program, thus avoiding tort liability. The defense lawyers’ fee award was part of an ...
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Read More »Employers could be required to provide language translators when necessary for injured workers to receive needed medical care under a recent opinion from the Workers’ Compensation Commission. In an issue of apparent first impression, the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission has ...
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