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Court affirms that payment of attorney’s fees does not extend statute of limitations as payment is neither payment of compensation nor provides medical treatment, the only two events that will extend statute of limitations under subsection 440.19(2).

The claimant sustained a compensable injury in 2011, and in 2013, filed a petition for benefits. The judge entered an order in 2015 awarding the benefits, including fee and cost entitlement. What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent legal developments of interest to our readers.

Appellate Division found the claimant’s injury was not compensable as there was a lack of requisite “work connection.”

The petitioner appealed the dismissal, with prejudice, of her workers’ compensation claim for temporary disability and medical benefits. She worked as a school nurse for the respondent. What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent legal developments of interest to our readers.

In a psychological injury case involving an allegation of sexual assault, the Workers’ Compensation Judge was within his jurisdiction to make a finding that implicated criminal conduct resulting in the claimant’s injury.

The claimant, a corrections officer, alleged that she suffered a work-related psychological injury as a result of being sexually assaulted while in the course of employment. What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent legal developments of interest to our readers.