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New South Wales Supreme Court: Beyond Care Pty Ltd v Beyond Care Australia Pty Ltd Case No. 2024 NSWSC 1051 Facts of the Case The plaintiff, Beyond Care Pty Ltd, [...]

Background The South Carolina appellate courts have been faced with several questions on workers' compensation in recent months, producing opinions that will affect practice points and claims handling in defending [...]

RALEIGH, NC -- The following information was released by the North Carolina Department of Insurance: North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey announced today the arrest of Kevin Abron Wade, 53, [...]

In Knight v. Surrey Place Centre (2019) HRTO 482 [ôKnightö], the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (ôthe Tribunalö) examined an employer's human rights obligations and the complexities of delegating the duty [...]

TAMPA, FL -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida: U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Albert Bayer [...]

Byline: Linda F. Hersey A federal district court judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs that claims the agency systematically engaged in a pattern [...]

NEW ORLEANS, La. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana: ALINE JAMES, a/k/a 'Aline Foster' ('JAMES') , age 51, [...]

A recent decision from the Ontario Court of Appeal underscores the need for an insurer to deal fairly with their insured or face the financial consequences. In Baker v Blue [...]

Byline: Fiona Blackwood NDIS, Judo, Stacey Gittus, National Disability Insurance Agency, Body suit, Van der Woude syndrome, Judo Tasmanian State Champion, Jane Wardlaw, James Gittus Disabilities; Community and Society; Family [...]

In Bennett v. Ohio Nat'l Life Assur. Corp., 92 Cal. App. 5th 723, the California Court of Appeal addressed when the statute of limitations runs for a disability insurance claim. [...]

HARRISBURG, PA -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of [...]

Kayla Dennis, age 25, of Johnston, was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud - Presenting False Information (Class D Felony), one count of Forgery (Aggravated Misdemeanor) and one count [...]

With the adoption of the 2018 amendments to the ERISA disability claims regulations, it is now the law that ERISA disability plan administrators must provide claimants with copies of any [...]

LITTLE ROCK, AR -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas: Defendant fraudulently received $91,651.70 from the Department of Veterans [...]

A federal lawsuit said that Commissioner Roger Goodell and other leaders of the league's disability plan kept players from receiving payouts for injuries sustained while playing the game. Ten former [...]

Byline: Will Hobson Ten retired NFL players, including former star running back Willis McGahee, sued the league's benefits plan, its board of trustees and Commissioner Roger Goodell in federal court [...]

Byline: Will Hobson Ten retired NFL players, including former star running back Willis McGahee, sued the league's benefits plan, its board of trustees and Commissioner Roger Goodell in federal court [...]

Byline: Will Hobson When retired offensive tackle Darryl Ashmore applied for payments from the NFL disability plan in 2015, he made one request: to see doctors close to his south [...]

Employer appealed trial judge's finding that employee on temporary leave was entitled to receive long-term disability (LTD) benefits for injury that occurred after employee's leave commenced. Appeal Court found trial [...]

In 2017, Ms. Baker commenced a lawsuit against Blue Cross Life Insurance Company of Canada for long-term disability benefits. Ms. Baker, who was working as a director at the Toronto [...]

White Plains, New York, partners Mat Ross and Ilysa Cholewa commenced a rescission action to declare four disability policies, totaling more than $30 million, void ab initio. The Insured physician [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) March 06, 2023 Roberts Disability Law, P.C., attorneys representing the father of a slain Sacramento Police Officer announced today that they are suing Lincoln National Life Insurance [...]

Denis O'Sullivan, the father of slain Sacramento police officer Tara O'Sullivan, has filed an ERISA lawsuit against Lincoln National Life Insurance Company alleging that Lincoln denied his claim for long-term [...]

PORTLAND, Maine: A former Yarmouth resident was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Portland for aggravated identity theft and making a false statement to the Small Business Administration in [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Office of Inspector General: On January 17, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District [...]

On September 1, 2022, the Quebec Court of Appeal handed down an important decision in Caisse populaire Desjardins de Saint-Raymond-Sainte-Catherine c. Girard.1 In a unanimous decision, the Court ruled that [...]

Thompson v Aviva Insurance Company, 2022 CanLII 109489 (ON LAT) In its recent November 18, 2022 decision, Adjudicator Brian Norris of the License Appeal Tribunal (LAT) considered an income replacement [...]

Byline: Jalen Brown, CNN (CNN) -- The United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) administered disability benefits in a racially discriminatory manner for decades, disproportionately rejecting Black veteran disability claims [...]

Byline: Alex Horton The U.S. government has discriminated against 'countless' Black military veterans dating back decades, rejecting service-connected disability claims disproportionately compared with White applicants, and blocking access to housing [...]

The Accident In 2019, a client of ROCHE Legal in their late 50's was working as a disability support worker. The support worker was unfortunately injured at work when assisting [...]

Baltimore, Maryland U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Linda Pylant, age 59, of Grasonville, Maryland, today to four years in federal prison, followed by one year of home detention [...]

BALTIMORE, MD. -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland: U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Linda Pylant, age 59, [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin-bill.rankin@ajc.com CONTINUING COVERAGE DEATH PENALTY The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider Georgias standard that lawyers contend makes it all but impossible for intellectually disabled capital [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Office of Inspector General: On July 14, 2022, Dwayne Bent was indicted in the U.S. District [...]

This week, the Ninth Circuit considers the President's authority to remove the Commissioner of Social Security. KAUFMANN V. KIJAKAZI The Court invalidates that statutory removal provision for the Commissioner of [...]

Byline: Felicia Sonmez Leslie McCrae Dowless, the North Carolina political operative under investigation in a 2018 ballot fraud scheme, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of Social Security disability fraud. [...]

Good afternoon. Following are this week's summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of November 29 to December 3, 2021. On December 1, 2021, the Court [...]

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held in the case of Primaz v Carl Room Restaurants Ltd t/a McDonald's Restaurants Ltd and ors that the tribunal should not have considered [...]

What happens when an ERISA-governed disability claim is denied solely under the 'own occupation' provision, but a reviewing district court concludes the claimant is entitled to 'own' occupation benefits? Does [...]

In Granville v. Blue Cross Life Insurance Company of Canada1, the plaintiff sought leave to transfer his action from regular procedure to Simplified Procedure. In the alternative, the plaintiff sought [...]

RALEIGH, NC -- The following information was released by the North Carolina Department of Insurance: North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey today announced that Gary Buzzerio, 65, of 601 Capeside [...]

The N.F.L. and the players association agreed in a new labor deal in March to reduce payments to 400 former players who cannot work. Two former N.F.L. players have sued [...]

What happens when the ERISA claimant files suit after the disability claim has been denied, and then the ERISA claims administrator reinstates benefits retroactively? Doesn't reinstatement 'moot' the issues in [...]