Employment Law Court Rulings

The magistrate properly denied employer's request for a writ of mandamus. Some evidence supported Industrial Commission's decision that employee was unable to work as a direct result of an impairment arising from his workplace injury and not due to reasons unrelated to the injury.

1. An injured employee's right to assert a direct claim for unpaid medical expenses is not precluded by a medical provider's failure to intervene in a pending workers' compensation proceeding under Minnesota Statutes section 176.361 (2022). 2. The compensation judge's findings that the injured…

Self-represented appellants challenge the dismissal with prejudice of their claims against respondent county social services and some of its employees, alleging that appellants' information and records were erroneously released and seeking compensation for the alleged error. Because appellants…

The plaintiff in error, P, the attorney for J and several other defendants in the underlying consolidated actions, filed a writ of error challenging the order of the trial court suspending him from the practice of law for a period of six months. The plaintiffs in those actions, including certain…

In this interlocutory appeal, defendants Blue Ocean Waters, LLC and its members Piyush Viradia and Jiten Parikh seek to vacate two orders of the Chancery court. First, its January 18, 2023 order granting partial summary judgment to plaintiff AC Ocean Walk, LLC to judicially dissociate Blue Ocean…

DOMESTIC RELATIONS - termination of spousal support failed to object and/or appeal res judicata attempt to relitigate issues already decided.

The complaint alleged facts sufficient to put appellants on notice that the claims against them involved an exception to their general immunity as government employees pursuant to R.C. 2744.03(A)(6)(b). Accordingly, the trial court did not err in denying appellants' motions for judgment on the…