Grand Rapids, MI
Workers compensation Lawyer at Grand Rapids, MI
Practice Areas: Workers Compensation, Social Security, Personal Injury
OUTCOME: Two Million with Special Needs Trust
Issue involving arising out and in the course of employment issue where employee was seriously injured in a trampoline incident while off the clock but on employer premises.
OUTCOME: 2.5 Million
WC Carrier denied coverage claiming injury did not arise out of work. Serious Injuries. Mid trial the carrier changed its mind and settled.
OUTCOME: Court ruled that the Plaintiff satisfied Sington proofs for disability and that the opportunity to accommodate was not an absolute right. Further, the Court upheld a finding of "loss of industrial use of the leg”.
Case involved a Mexican alien legally working for defendant employer in Michigan under a Visa issued specifically at the defendant's request, who sustained a very serious leg injury. Claimant was bein ... g accommodated intermittently between treatments/surgery. When his Visa expired, the employee had to return to Mexico, where the defendant had originally intended to eventually employee him at its anticipated Mexican facility. Defendant claimed benefits should be denied because employee allegedly fled to Mexico and thus employer could no longer accommodate the impairment. http://caselaw.findlaw.com/mi-court-of-appeals/1181416.html
OUTCOME: Court held that the exclusive remedy provision did not bar claimant from also receiving No-Fault benefits directly from an employer who was self insured on the vehicle. Court also held the WC offset to be constitutional.
Case involved an issue of first impression involving the interplay of provisions of the Michigan No-Fault Law and the Michigan Workers Compensation Act, where an employee sustained a work/auto related ... injury while occupying a vehicle furnished by his employer who was self insured on the vehicle.