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• Employee's Commute To Work Within Course of Employment Under Kentucky Workers Compensation Law - Fortney v. Airtran Airways [PDF]   
  Description: A work injury sustained while commuting to work can be covered by Kentucky workers compensation law. If you have suffered a work injury and have a Kentucky workers compensation claim, contact Lexington, Kentucky workers compensation lawyer Robert Abell at 859-254-7076.
• Kentucky Workers Compensation; Back Injury - Land v Frito-Lay Opinion and Award [PDF]   
  Description: Kentucky workers compensation benefits including income benefits and medical bills are available to Kentucky workers that suffer a work injury. If you have suffered a work injury and have questions about your Kentucky workers compensation benefits, contact Lexington, Kentucky workers compensation lawyer Robert Abell at 859-254-7076.
• Kentucky Workers Compensation Back Injury; Opinion & Award -- Archer v Back Construction [PDF]   
  Description: Kentucky workers compensation benefits are available for Kentucky workers that suffer a work injury. If you have sustained a work injury or have questions about your Kentucky workers compensation benefits, contact Lexington, Kentucky workers compensation lawyer Robert Abell at 859-254-7076.
• Recovery of Damages Against a Co-Worker For Injuries Sustained on the Job [PDF]   
  Description: Can damages be recovered in a personal injury suit for injuries sustained on the job? The exclusive remedy doctrine to Kentucky workers compensation benefits usually bars such recovery against the employer and co-employees as is illustrated in this decision by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, Helton v. Tri-County Cycles.
• Recovery of Workers Compensation Benefits Not Barred by Recovery of Damages in Injury Suit Against Third-Party [PDF]   
  Description: Can workers compensation benefits be recovered where personal injury damages have been recovered from a third party? The answer is Yes, as the Kentucky Court of Appeals explained in this decision, Wal-Mart v Wells, but the injured worker cannot make a double recovery.
• Are doctors that examine injured persons for an insurance company or corporation fair? Dorothy Clay Sims wrote a book about it, "Exposing Deceptive Defense Doctors." Robert Abell reviewed it for the Kentucky Justice Association publication, The Advocate. [PDF]   
  Description: One of the tricks that insurance companies use is hiring doctors to give opinions that are then used to wrongly deny claims.
• Worker Injured In Fall Entitled To Benefits -- Vacuum Depositing v Dever [PDF]   
  Description: Are injuries a worker suffers from an unexplained fall on the job covered by workers compensation? When the cause of a workplace fall is unexplained, it is presumed to be work-related and the injured worker is entitled to workers compensation benefits.
• Injured Worker's Negligence Claim Not Barred By Workers Comp -- Labor Ready v Johnston [PDF]   
  Description: Is an injury claim arising from the negligence of a temp service employee barred by the workers compensation exclusive remedy doctrine? "No" answered the Kentucky Supreme Court in Labor Ready v. Johnston, 2007-SC-149-DG.
• Workers Compensation - Injured Workers Denied Benefits May Pursue RICO Claims - Brown v Cassens Transport [PDF]   
  Description: The Sixth Circuit appeals court ruled in this case that injured workers denied their workers compensation benefits by the fraudulent actions of their employer, claims administrators and doctors may file suit and seek treble damages under the federal racketeering law, RICO.
• Remedies For Injured Workers Denied Workers Compensation Benefits   
  Description: Robert L. Abell, Lexington, Kentucky workers compensation lawyer, tells how injured workers fraudulently denied workers compensation benefits may pursue remedies under federal racketeering law.
• Injured Workers May Pursue a Civil RICO Claim Based On An Enterprise Denying Them Workers' Compensation Benefits (published in The Advocate by the Kentucky Justice Association) [PDF]   
  Description: Robert L. Abell, Lexington, Kentucky workers compensation lawyer, discusses how injured workers fraudulently denied workers compensation benefits can pursue remedies under the federal racketeering law.

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