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Unemployment compensation: Denial of Benefits-Overpayment
Where a claimant of unemployment benefits challenged decisions of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission, the claimant did not timely seek review of the denial of her claim for benefits […]
Unemployment Compensation: Denial of Benefits-Misconduct-Poor Performance Rule
Where a claimant of unemployment compensation challenged the denial of benefits, the commission erred in finding that the claimant was disqualified from receiving benefits because he violated the employer’s rule […]
Administrative Law: Denial of Benefits-Residual Functional Capacity
Where a claimant challenged the denial of his claim for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income, the adverse decision was supported by substantial evidence, including the residual functional capacity […]
Workers’ Compensation: Denial of Benefits-Risk of Injury-Stairway Accident
Where a claimant, who was injured when he tripped on stairs at work, challenged the denial of worker’s compensation benefits, there was no credible evidence that his risk of walking […]
Workers’ Compensation: Denial of Benefits-Evidence of Unusual Hazard or Risk
Claimant appealed from the denial of workers’ compensation benefits, which she sought after suffering a fall at work when she slipped on her school’s linoleum floor. Where claimant failed to […]
Administrative: Social Security-Denial of Benefits
Where a claimant challenged the denial of disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income, there was no objective medical evidence that his flare ups of gout were frequent or lengthy, […]
Administrative Law: Social Security Disability Insurance-Denial of Benefits-Administrative Hearing
Plaintiff appealed from the district court’s order with the help from a social security disability lawyer affirming the denial of Social Security disability insurance benefits to plaintiff. The most important reason […]
Administration: Social Security-Denial of Benefits-Intellectual Disorder
Where a claimant of supplemental security income challenged the denial of her application for benefits, the administrative law judge properly determined that the claimant’s limitations from her intellectual disorder and […]
Administration: Social Security-Denial of Benefits
Where a claimant challenged the denial of disability insurance benefits, the administrative law judge properly discounted the claimant’s subjective complaints, and substantial evidence supported the determination that the claimant was […]
Insurance: ERISA-Denial of Benefits-Discretionary Power
Plaintiff appealed from the adverse grant of summary judgment in her ERISA claim arising from the denial of benefits. Where the plan reserved discretionary power to construe terms or make […]
Administrative: Supplemental Security Income-Denial of Benefits-Residual Functional Capacity
Plaintiff appealed from the denial of his application for supplemental security income. Although plaintiff was found to suffer from borderline intellectual functioning, learning delays, schizoaffective disorder, and mood, personality, and […]
Administrative: Social Security-Denial of Benefits-Residual Functional Capacity
Where a claimant of Social Security disability benefits challenged an order affirming the denial of benefits and supplemental security income, the administrative law judge properly gave little weight to the […]
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