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DC Workers Comp: Bus driver's injuries when walking back to her car at end of first half of a split shift were compensable
June 20th, 2022
In Lee v. DOES and WMATA, No. 21-AA-0130 (D.C. May 26, 2022), the D.C. Court of Appeals reversed the Compensation Review Board, finding that a WMATA bus driver’s workers’ compensation claim was compensable when she had been injured while walking to her personal vehicle at the end of the first half of a split shift. The…
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Virginia federal court bars coverage based on violation of prompt notice provision
June 20th, 2022
"[T]he length of time of each delay violated the Policy’s prompt notice provision as a matter of law."
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Update to Virginia Underinsured Motorist Insurance Laws
April 18th, 2022
In a car accident, where the other driver is at fault, generally the non at-fault party relies on the at-fault party’s insurance to pay their medical bills and repair costs. But the issue becomes what happens when the other party’s insurance is insufficient to cover all the expenses. This is where, an “underinsured mo…
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Jordan Coyne LLP is pleased to announce that Taylor R. Miles has been elevated to Partner.
March 11th, 2022
Jordan Coyne LLP is pleased to announce that Taylor R. Miles has been elevated to Partner. Taylor is a graduate of the West Virginia University College of Law and received his undergraduate degree at The College of William & Mary. Before joining the firm in 2018, Taylor served as a prosecutor in Virginia for five years,…
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D.C. Court of Appeals clarifies the method to assign permanent partial disability awards
May 4th, 2017
COURT OF APPEALS CLARIFIES THE METHOD TO ASSIGN PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY AWARDS UNDER THE D C WORKERS’ COMPENSATION ACT Like many other workers’ compensation statutes, the D.C. Workers’ Compensation Act [Act] provides a schedule setting forth the amount of benefits that may be awarded for the permanent disability…
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Jordan Coyne LLP is pleased to announce that Padraic Keane has been advanced to Partner
February 7th, 2017
Jordan Coyne LLP is pleased to announce that Padraic Keane has been advanced to Partner. A member of the Maryland bar since 2002, Padraic was admitted to practice in the District of Columbia in 2006, and Virginia in 2015. He attended the University of Colorado (B.A. 1999), and received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Amer…
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In Memoriam - James F. Jordan
November 11th, 2016
James F. Jordan of Chevy Chase, Maryland, passed away peacefully on November 10, 2016. Jim was born on February 9, 1933 in Washington, D.C. He was preceded in death by his parents, John A. Jordan, Sr. and Margaret Ellen Leahan Jordan, his sisters, Mary Margaret Jordan McKeever, Rita Bridgett Jordan Marshall, Joanne Ellen Jo…
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Virginia Workers’ Compensation: Injury After Clocking Out
April 15th, 2016
In Jones v. The Woodlands, Inc., Jurisdiction Claim No. VA00001035833 (March 29, 2016), the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission ruled that an employee injured on the employer’s premises but after he had clocked out was not injured in the course of his employment. The Commission reversed the Deputy Commissi…
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Eastern District of Virginia rules on school restroom policy regarding transgender students
October 9th, 2015
In G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board, Civil No. 4:15cv54., the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia considered whether a school board resolution requiring that the use of male or female restrooms and locker rooms be restricted to those of the corresponding biological gender constituted impermissible…
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Avoiding the Late Payment Penalty
September 8th, 2015
Compensation awarded in an Order must be “paid within 10 days after it becomes due” or a statutorily mandated twenty-percent penalty shall be imposed. D.C. Code § 32-1515. In Daly v. D.C. Dep't of Empl. Servs., 2015 D.C. App. LEXIS 359, 12-13 (D.C. Aug. 6, 2015), the Court held that payment becomes …
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