01/26/21
Jane Salem
What a year! The memes abound about 2020, most of which contain language or images unsuitable for this forum. (Here are a few from
But regardless of last year s tragedies, disruptions of our work and personal activities, and social and political unrest … we rather quietly and doggedly continued doing what we do here in the Court of Workers Compensation Claims and the Appeals Board. We heard or reviewed cases, and we wrote opinions.
Us last year…
So, what follows is my annual January recap of the past year s Appeals Board opinions, broken into two parts. In this post, we ll review the opinions about jurisdiction, medical causation, referrals, mechanism of injury, and witness credibility. In the next article, we ll revisit cases on, well, everything else. We ll finish up the month with a look back at Supreme Court Panel cases.
messed up dynamics and incentives in today s republican party where any form of compromise in democrats jeopardizes your political career and this has been the story since republicans gained control of the lower chamber in the 2010 elections. until those dynamics go away, they re always going to be unproductive. certainly there are those like you who feel that way. in fairness to folks that have been trying to put together some of the bigger stuff, as we understand it, though they re not going to be able to pass something to reform, for example, the cash-strapped u.s. postal service, our understanding is they got 90% to 95% of a deal. it came down to worker compensation claims. that s a big philosophical difference. but otherwise there was a plan. reauthorizing the violence against women act, there s another one. obviously everyone wants to reauthorize it. they understand those protections are needed. because democrats were pushing to expand some of the proteks to
[ applause ] john: were you injured on the job? if you watch tv, even this channel, there is an army of lawyers eager to take your case. if you ve been injured at work, call me. i can help you. you are entitled to a lump sum settlement. my law firm has recovered third of a billion dollars for injured people. john: you end up paying that million or billion added to the cost of everything we buy. someone is really injured we wanted them compensated but were they? quarter of worker compensation claims are bogus. at least a quarter says paul cober who secretly sells people who files claims and makes recordings like this one. this man says he was blind because he was injured on the job. look at this.
[ applause ] john: were you injured on the job? if you watch tv, even this channel, there is an army of lawyers eager to take your case. if you ve been injured at work, call me. i can help you. you are entitled to a lump sum settlement. my law firm has recovered third of a billion dollars for injured people. john: you end up paying that million or billion added to the cost of everything we buy. someone is really injured we wanted them compensated but were they? quarter of worker compensation claims are bogus. at least a quarter says paul cober who secretly sells people who files claims and makes recordings like this one. this man says he was blind because he was injured on the job. look at this.