Workers Compensation Law
 
Alexin, LLC v. Olympic Metals, LLC

Alexin is a manufacturer of aluminum extrusion ingots in Bluffton. Olympic is
an aluminum scrap broker located in Florida. In March 2013, Anita Eads, an
Alexin employee, communicated with Cecil Shiver, a sales representative for
Olympic, regarding Alexin’s desire to purchase a shipment of aluminum scrap.
On April 15, Alexin issued Purchase Order No. 16208 (“the purchase orde

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State of Missouri vs. Michael J. Frese

The facts relevant to the question of whether the statute of limitations bars the State’s
claim against Frese are uncontested. On January 26, 2012, the Attorney General received a
referral from the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (“DOLIR”) that Frese
failed to insure workers’ compensation liability. Thereafter, on January 16, 2015, the Attorney
General,

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City of Fargo v. William Rakowski

Rakowski owns rental houses in Fargo. In November 2011 Fargo inspected one of the houses owned by Rakowski and found the garage was deteriorating, the siding on the house was deteriorating, two egress window wells were collapsing and one window was broken. Fargo notified Rakowski of the need for repairs and re-inspection. The house was re-inspected on December 12, 2011, December 29, 2011, January

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Bethani Baum v. Mays Home Healthcare, Inc. and Central Pyramid Accounting, Inc.

Oklahoma City, OK - Bethani Baum sued Mays Home Healthcare, Inc. and Central Pyramid Accounting, Inc. on intentional infliction of emotional distress theories claiming:


1. That the Plaintiff is a resident of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
2. That the Defendant, Mays HHC is an Oklahoma corporation whose principle place of business is in Antlers, Oklahoma and who has does business in

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Joseph Lemerise v. The Commerce Insurance Company

There is no serious dispute about the underlying facts of this case. In August 2011,
plaintiff was a pedestrian in a crosswalk in Newport when he was struck by a vehicle operated by
an uninsured motorist. At the time, plaintiff was an insured under his mother’s automobile
insurance policy, pursuant to the terms of which he made a claim for uninsured-motorist
coverage for his

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NICK C. RHOADES vs. STATE OF IOWA

Nicholas Rhodes was HIV positive when he came in contact with A.P. on a social networking site. After exchanging messages, A.P invited Rhoades to his home. A.P. understood Rhoades to be HIV negative, in part because of Rhoades’s online profile. Rhoades and A.P. engaged in consensual unprotected oral and protected anal sex at A.P.’s home. When A.P. learned that Rhoades was HIV positive, he cont

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United States of America v. Nery Cowan

Miami, FL - Former Health Care Clinic Consultant and Biller Sentenced to 135 Months in Miami For Role in $63 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

A former health care clinic consultant and Medicare biller was sentenced to 135 months in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine for her role in laundering money in connection with a $63 million health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct Miami

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State of Louisiana v. Glenn Ford

In 1984, Ford was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to
death for the November 5, 1983, armed robbery and murder of Isadore
Rozeman. His conviction and sentence were affirmed on appeal. State v.
Ford, 489 So. 2d 1250 (La. 1986). In late 2013, the Caddo Parish District
Attorney’s Office stated that it had obtained credible evidence that Ford
“was neither present

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Promise Lashawn Kelley v. The State of Texas

On May 20, 2012, the body of Fredy Villalta was found in the middle of the service road
of LBJ Freeway in Dallas. Villalta had been shot once in the head. A closed knife was found in
his pocket. Two fired cartridge casings were found on the curb of the road.
Police identified appellant as a suspect and, through investigation, learned that Villalta
had been a customer of one

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MAXWELL v. SPRINT PCS

On February 2, 2014, Petitioner Theresa Maxwell suffered an injury to her knee while working for her Employer, Respondent Sprint PCS. She promptly notified her Employer and timely filed a CC-Form-3 with the Workers' Compensation Commission on March 18, 2014. The Employer admitted Petitioner's injury to her knee was compensable, and she had surgery to repair a tendon in her knee. Petitioner also re

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ASARCO v. Atlantic Richfield Compan

For over one hundred years, Asarco and its predecessors operated a lead smelting
facility in East Helena, Montana (the Site). From 1927 to 1972, Atlantic Richfield’s
predecessor operated a zinc fuming plant on land leased from Asarco at the Site.1 In
1972, Atlantic Richfield sold the zinc fuming plant and related property to Asarco.
Under the 1972 sale agreement (1972 Agree

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STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. CHYWON WRIGHT

The defendant in these certified appeals, Chywon Wright, was convicted of various crimes stemming from his involvement in a sexual assault that occurred on November 1, 2008. On that date, ‘‘the victim1 accompanied Bryan Fuller, a member of a street gang, to a vacant second floor apartment at 19 Taylor Street in [the city of] Waterbury. The victim went to the apartment expecting Fuller to pay her $

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LAWSON ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, LLC v. USA

On July 8, 2014, EPA issued Solicitation Number SOL-R7-14-00008 for environmental remediation services of residential properties at three lead-contaminated sites in the Washington County Lead District in Missouri, pursuant to CERCLA. AR 4, 82. The remediation services entailed the excavation and relocation of lead-contaminated materials - - including mine waste, soil, gravel, crushed rock, veget

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Timothy Sumner v. Campbell Clinic, PC, et al.

On July 19, 2011, Plaintiff Timothy Sumner (“Mr. Sumner”) was admitted to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis in order to receive treatment for an injured right leg.1 As part of his treatment, Mr. Sumner was scheduled to undergo a surgery that involved the taking of a bone graft from the iliac crest of his hip. Because Mr. Sumner had recently undergone another surgery to repair a “right lower

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James A. Farley v. Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security

Petitioner, James A. Farley, filed a petition for judicial review in Davidson County Chancery Court on July 5, 2013, seeking to overturn an Order of Forfeiture issued by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, which was entered on March 4, 2013. The subject of the forfeiture is a motor vehicle Mr. Farley claims to have owned at all material times.
Because this matter was d

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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality v. Exxon Mobil Corporation; Exxon Mobil Oil Corporation; Pennzoil-Quaker State Company and Shell Oil Companyt

In this case of first impression, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
contends that the two types of Superfund orders it is empowered to issue are mutually exclusive,
meaning that one order cannot be issued under both ordering provisions. The Commission further
contends that the Superfund order at issue here is an order issued under Section 361.188 of the Solid
Waste Dis

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Brittany Leanne Poignee v. The State of Wyoming

In 2008, the State charged Ms. Poignee with one count of delivery of methamphetamine, in violation of Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-7-1031(a)(i) (LexisNexis 2015). The charged crime was a felony and carried maximum penalties of twenty years in prison and/or a fine of $25,000. Id. She entered a plea of no contest to the charge on February 24, 2009, but the proceedings were deferred pursuant to Wyo. Stat.

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Henry Roop v. Southern Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Glen Lingle and Douglas E. Martin

Southern Pharmaceuticals Corporation (“SPC”) is a medical supply company owned
principally by Glenn Lingle and Doug Martin. Nearly seventy percent of SPC’s business is
funded by payments from Medicare and Medicaid. At the time, sales of diabetic equipment
amounted to roughly three percent of SPC’s operations. Henry Roop, who had several years
of experience in medical sales, approac

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State of Maine v. Kyle J. Dube

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict,
the trial record supports the following facts. See State v. Weaver, 2016 ME 12, ¶ 2,
130 A.3d 972. Using a Facebook account in the name of a different man, Kyle
Dube arranged to meet the victim, an acquaintance, on a corner outside her home
on the evening of May 12, 2013. When the victim arrived at the m

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State of Tennessee v. Susan Jo Walls

This case presents a murder-for-hire or contract killing scenario. On April 15, 2013, a Bedford County grand jury charged the Defendant with criminal responsibility for the first-degree premeditated murder of her husband, Larry Walls, Sr. (“the victim”), based upon her participation in the killing and with conspiring along with Jason Starrick, Sean Gearhardt, and Dawn Walls, daughter of the Defen

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State of Tennessee v. Devonte Bonds, et al.

All of the defendants were indicted for attempted first degree murder, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, and employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. A jury convicted them of attempted second degree murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony; they were acquitted

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State of Missouri vs. Anthony Umbertino

Umbertino was the long-time police chief of the City of Charlack. In 2007, he
was given the additional position of city administrator, i.e., the City’s chief financial
officer. In that role, Umbertino was authorized to write checks from City accounts, had
access to signature stamps and a City credit card, and worked with the City’s accountant
on payroll.
On multiple occa

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United States of America v. Hugo John Scherzberg

Oakland, CA - Former Concord Resident Sentenced To Over Three Years In Prison For Religious Hate Crime - Defendant Set Fire to Pittsburg, California, Church

Hugo John Scherzberg was sentenced to 41 months in prison yesterday for his religious hate crime conviction in relation to the March 20, 2010, fire at a church in Pittsburg, Calif., announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Str

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STATE OF CONNECTICUT v. AARON BRANTLEY

After a trial to the court, the defendant, Aaron Brantley, was convicted of one count of bribery of a witness in violation of General Statutes § 53a-149. The defendant now appeals, claiming that there was insufficient evidence to sustain his conviction. We affirm the judgment of the trial court. At the conclusion of the defendant’s trial, the court, B.Fischer,J.,madethefollowingfindingsoffact:‘‘[T

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United States of America v. Corinthia Watson and Jerry Smith

Husband And Wife Sentenced To A Decade In Federal Prison For Possession With Intent To Distribute Oxycodone As A Part Of Prescription Drug Ring Prosecution

Corinthia Watson, age 33, and her husband, Jerry Smith, age 37, of Hull, Georgia were sentenced by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal yesterday in Athens, Georgia for possession with intent to distribute prescription drugs they illegally ob

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