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Mediation in Workers' Compensation Practice
As Philadelphia Workers' Compensation Judge Scott Olin is fond of saying, workers' compensation cases can end in essentially three different ways. Either the claimant loses whatever litigation he is involved in, effectively ending his entitlement to compensation; the injured worker returns to gainful employment in a position which permanently results in his earning his pre-injury average weekly wage; or the parties settle the case amicably for a lump sum of benefits.Shook v. Avaya Inc., PICS Case No. 10-3433 (3d Cir. Nov. 2, 2010) Fisher, J. (14 pages).
Richard and Karen Shook, husband and wife, sued Avaya Inc., Richard's former employer, alleging an Employee Retirement Income Security Act violation. The Shooks contended that Avaya breached its fiduciary duty owed to them as participant and beneficiary under the Avaya pension plan through a series of misleading letters regarding Richard's pension benefits.View more book results for the query "Verizon Communications"
Federal judge wants court to clarify patent issues
Chief Judge Paul Michel said the Federal Circuit's should consider patent cases before congressional reform because the court "can proceed incrementally, sequentially in an evolutionary sense," while Congress must act all at once.Do Your Searches Pass Judicial Scrutiny?
Given escalating volumes of ESI and the general impatience of courts with e-discovery mistakes, counsel and their clients soon may have no choice but to move beyond traditional Boolean search techniques. Courts have already put practitioners on notice of this emerging obligation.Chancery Applies Preliminary Injunction Standard to a Motion for a TRO
Litigation is fast-paced in the Delaware Court of Chancery; but when a litigant files a motion for expedited relief, the pace and the complexity increases as well. A recent case, Roseton OL LLC v. Dynegy Holdings Inc. serves as a prime example.Trending Stories
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