05/24/2023
After a long and litigious delay myMatrixx has been awarded the contract to manage pharmacy benefits for the coal and energy programs run by the Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs OWCP. Details of the case which involved a protest by rival
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03/10/2021
“stubbornly litigious.” Great American has asked for reimbursement of its settlement contribution plus attorney fees and expenses.
I see many cases that like the Taylor case clearly have the potential to “blow up.” Cases settle when parties are willing to spend the
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02/03/2021
defendant and a plaintiff in litigation.
From what I recall this guy is pretty litigious Burnett said. He's been around the comp system for a while causing problems.
Vanderwerff was initially licensed in 1997. Eight years later a patient filed a lawsuit against him claiming he touched her
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12/18/2020
Reversed and Rendered in Part Affirmed in Part and Opinion Filed May 22 2013
In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
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12/18/2020
plaintiff's prior claims or settlements. The court barred such evidence recognizing that it may be prejudicial to the plaintiffs since hostility is ordinarily felt against' litigious persons. Mays 490 N.W.2d at 803-04 citation omitted. Despite defense counsel's multiple direct references to
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12/17/2020
1969 holding that "plaintiff's character as being litigious is certainly not in issue".
The amount of a settlement or judgment for a prior injury is inadmissible because it is "clearly irrelevant to the issues being tried." Leslie v. Higgason 779 So. 2d 470 470 Fla. 2d DCA 2000
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12/17/2020
should be invoked in today's litigious society when the party making the statement reasonably believed that the controversy would result in legal proceedings if the matter was not settled." See Charles W. Ehrhardt Florida Evidence § 408.1 at 216 1994. Because we rule that the claim involved in
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12/17/2020
remedying the parties' failure to initiate some nonlitigious resolution of this manufactured problem reveals how unconsciously and passively this Court has become the bound prisoner of litigious instincts ingrained in the workers' compensation bar and through them in clients who supposedly are self
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12/17/2020
conclusions should be matters for the trier of fact. Nemeth 82 Ohio St.3d at 211 694 N.E.2d 1332.
¶ 52 I agree that to be admissible an expert's opinion must be based on valid reliable information in light of the multitude of professional experts in our litigious society known as "hired
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12/17/2020
these longstanding opinions of three medical experts directly contradicting their position renders their defense unreasonable and unfoundedly litigious under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-88.1" citation omitted. We hold the Commission did not err by finding and concluding that Defendant defended this
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