JD Supra

Claimant’s Conversation With Fellow Firefighter About Act 46 Cancer Presumption Was Not the Date He Became Aware of His Cancer’s Relationship to His Employment; Therefore ...

This case involved a Claim Petition filed based on an occupational disease. The claimant worked as a firefighter and filed an Act 46 firefighter/cancer claim, alleging he sustained colon cancer as of ...
JD Supra

Working with a Pro Se Claimant in a Mediation

No one ever said practicing law or mediating cases was going to be easy. If it was, then just about anyone could do it and that’s emphatically not the case. However, the complexity involved doesn’t ...
SCOTUSblog

Opinion analysis: Dismissal as untimely of Supplemental Security Income claimant’s request for review is final decision subject to judicial review

Section 405(g) of the Social Security Act allows for judicial review of “any final decision … made after a hearing” by the Social Security Administration. Yesterday, in a unanimous opinion, the ...
WHNT

ADOL to replace UC Claims Tracker with Claimant Portal

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Department of ...
lawgazette.co.uk

Defendant contests Part 36 offer accepted on the day claimant died

A High Court judge has suggested it would be ‘unjust’ for a defendant to be held to a six-year-old Part 36 offer accepted hours before the claimant died. Ms Clare Ambrose, sitting as a deputy high ...