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contractor. Indeed an action against the employer is barred by Workers' Compensation Law § 11. Yet the same principles apply regardless of the identity of the defendant since precluding recovery of damages for lost wages in Labor Law cases would provide a windfall to defendants and more important
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Margolin-Greene Workers Compensation
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Reform Act of 1989 with the express intent of establishing a new and higher threshold
of compensability
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for psychiatric injuries. Lockheed Martin corp. v. lorkcrs' comp. Appeals Bd. Mccullough 2002
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had upheld the right of the provider to a fair notice and a hearing prior to removal from the list of preferred provider status. This did not involve a workers' compensation case but was analogous.
However in the case of Palm Medical Group v. State Compensation Insurance Fund
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Estes and its employees would pay 5 million and provide a written waiver of the workers' compensation lien. Although not stated in the stipulation the negotiated settlement provided that the 5 million would be paid as follows 750000 from Estesfn5 500000 from Cigna and 3.75 million from Chubb
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of costs.
Opinion Footnotes
fn1 The City-Parish had through an intervention in the Fontenots' suit sought recovery for medical expenses and workers' compensation benefits paid to Mr. Fontenot and for the damage to the vehicle driven by Mr. Fontenot. However only the vehicle
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and did aid and abet solicit and conspire with another to do the same; to wit By adding an additional charge for 3d MRI under CPT Code 76375 to each healthcare claim submitted for the following workers compensation patients 10 names listed. PH Exhibit #6.”
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the risk to the employee.fn32 This test is analogous to the reasoning employed by this court in Cummings v. United Resort Hotels Inc.fn33 and McColl v. Scherer.fn34 However workers' compensation statutes do not apply "when the animosity or dispute which culminates in the assault is imported into
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the principles we explained in Sims in various factual settings. For example in Rymer supra 211 Cal.App.3d at page 1179 an employee Rymer filed an administrative complaint with the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board WCAB against his employer seeking compensation for injuries resulting from a
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in this courtroom in Rhode Island than in anyplace in Canada ." The plaintiffs also acknowledged that in Canada they would receive damage awards only in an amount over and above any money awarded to Canadian workers' compensation boards who are unnamed in the underlying cases but remain "true
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fn2 Francis's employer Reeled Tubing Inc. an independent subcontractor at Coastal's premises was a workers' compensation subscriber. Accordingly the Labor Code barred Francis from recovery against Reeled Tubing and also barred any third party from recovery against Reeled Tubing. See Tex. Lab
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