Author: Daniel Sullivan
DOL Implements New Rule Addressing Compensation Rates Under LHWCA
The Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation program has implemented a new rule addressing provisions on maximum and minimum compensation rates payable under... More
Undocumented Workers as Workers’ Compensation Beneficiaries
With illegal immigration and the presence of undocumented workers within the workforce being a long-standing political issue, the question may arise whether or not... More
NINTH CIRCUIT FINDS SUICIDE ATTEMPT BY LONGSHOREMAN COMPENSABLE
In 2001, Claimant William Kealoha was injured while working as a ship laborer. Kealoha fell 25 to 50 feet off a barge onto a... More
Second Circuit Finds Award of Surgery by OWC Premature
Claimant was employed as a delivery truck driver. While unloading an extremely heavy laundry bin, the bin tilted over onto Claimant, injuring his neck,... More
NINTH CIRCUIT HOLDS DEFENSE BASE ACT’S ZONE OF SPECIAL DANGER APPLICABLE TO LOCAL NATIONALS
Claimant, a citizen of the Marshall Islands, was employed as a civilian defense contractor based in the Kwajalein Atoll, which houses the U.S. Army... More
Louisiana Supreme Court Affirms Finding of Age Discrimination, Reduces Damages
Plaintiff James Robinson was a campus police officer for the University of Louisiana system beginning in 1971. Plaintiff received various promotions throughout his career,... More
Louisiana Supreme Court Holds Claimant Not Entitled to Defense-Paid FCE
Claimant sustained an injury to her neck, shoulder, and back in 2006. After several rounds of litigation, Claimant was awarded temporary total disability benefits... More
Louisiana Constitution Requires Payment of Fair Market Value for Levee Improvement Servitudes
In January 2010, in an effort to upgrade the size of permanent levee servitudes, the Board of Commissioners of the South Lafourche Levee District... More
Nothing to Smize About: Tyra Banks Named in Lawsuit
Supermodel and entrepreneur Tyra Banks was recently named in a lawsuit for allegedly ridiculing an act that appeared on the reality television competition show,... More
Federal District Court Once Again Addresses Discoverability of Surveillance
The Eastern District of Louisiana recently issued another opinion interpreting Chiasson v. Zapata Gulf Marine Corp., the benchmark Fifth Circuit case that guides the... More