Michael Peluso v. Calgary Flames et al: Violating Discovery Obligations Has Consequences in Workers Comp Case By Jeff Birren Clare Boothe Luce is credited with the now-famous line “no good deed goes unpunished.” Occasionally in court, bad deeds are also...
A New York state court has denied a bid by the National Football League and NFL Properties, LLC (NFL Entities) to stay discovery in their legal dispute with Alterra America Insurance Company and Discover Property & Casualty Company. The legal dispute...
A federal judge from the Northern District of Mississippi has declined to reopen the claim of a former professional football player, who alleged that he was entitled to more disability benefits than he was originally awarded by the NFL’s Retirement Board. ...
By Richard C. Giller, Esq. Las month, former NFL offensive lineman Darryl Ashmore filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District Florida against the NFL Player Disability and Neurocognitive Benefit Plan, claiming that the Plan wrongfully...
The murky world of assessing the medical impact of a concussion or multiple concussions has been put on prime display in a case involving a former hockey player, who sought unsuccessfully to overturn the ruling of Workers’ Compensation Office of Judges (WCOJ) in...
By Robert S. DiMarco The availability of insurance to protect collegiate athletes’ future professional earnings is critical in enabling many students to continue their collegiate careers. Insurance protecting against permanent disability...
A former professional football has sued Lloyds of London in North Carolina state court, claiming it wrongly rejected a claim for coverage on a policy that was designed to cover career-ending injuries, such as the debilitating concussion that he suffered. ...
By Steven Stamps, of The Ricky Green Law Firm The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has reversed an order of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a Workers’ Compensation Judge’s (WCJ) decision denying a petition from the...
A federal judge from the District of Minnesota has ruled that insurance giant Chubb Corp. must turn over redacted copies of the independent medical exams of NHL players. The exams were conducted after the players filed workers’ compensation claims associated with head...
By Richard C. Giller, Esq. Over the past several months a number of legal and business decisions have converged at the intersection of sports and insurance. On June 12, the New York Post reported that insurance giant American International Group, Inc. (AIG) had...
By Jeffrey Birren California’s workers’ compensation laws are among the most generous in the nation. The California Legislature created a system to protect employees and their counsel. Thus, the workers’ compensation statute at Labor Code § 3200 (“Cal. Lab.”)...
Modesto Diaz and Michael Gianchino have most assuredly spent many years opposing one another in workers’ compensation cases in the state of California. Diaz, the managing partner at Santa Ana-based Leviton Diaz & Ginocchio, Inc. represents plaintiffs,...
