The Minnesota government shutdown has left injured workers with no legal recourse to obtain desperately needed workers’ compensation benefits. Without any conferences or hearings at the Department of Labor and Industry or the Office of Administrative Hearings, injured workers’ are unable to obtain benefits when they have been denied by the workers’ compensation insurer. This is [...]
On Tuesday, the Chief Administrative Law Judge Raymond Krause went before the retired state Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz, who was appointed special master to hear complaints about the government shutdown, to ask for a reopening of OAH for limited services. Highlights of some of the items requested includes: 41 employees, consisting of the senior management [...]
On July 5, 2011 I was interviewed by the National Public Radio about the effect of the Minnesota government shutdown on claimants in the workers’ compensation system. After reflecting on that interview, I decided to summarize some of the effects. To begin with, although the Minnesota judicial system remains open, both the Department of Labor [...]
PPC Injury Tracker Application Professional athletes who suffer injuries while working in Minnesota, may be entitlted to Minnesota workers’ compensation benefits. Professional athletes often times suffer debilitating injuries in the course of their career. A study in 2003 found that the NFL players were nearly eight times higher to have an injury than that of any other commerical [...]
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