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Republican Senator Blocking Unemployment and COBRA Benefits

February 28th, 2010
Inexplicably, Republican Senator Jim Bunning has held up a much-needed extension of unemployment and COBRA benefits. Bunning has single-handily blocked a vote on a 30-day extension by being the only senator to oppose a unanimous consent motion to vot… Read More
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Categories: Legislative Action
Tags: COBRA, Congress, Labor and Employment, Unemployment Benefits

Brief Filed for Police Officer in Workers' Compensation Appeal

February 22nd, 2010
In Taylor v. Town of Garner, we have filed this brief with the North Carolina Court of Appeals in this workers’ compensation case. Officer Taylor in a veteran of the Garner police force who was injured while providing official inter-agency assi… Read More
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Categories: News of the Firm
Tags: Appeals, Briefs, Narendra Ghosh, NC Court of Appeals, Police Officers, Valerie Johnson, Workers' Compensation

Burton Chairs Ethics CLE

February 19th, 2010
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Categories: News of the Firm
Tags: Burton Craige, Ethics, NCAJ, Presentation

Fourth Circuit Affirms Sexual Harassment Verdict

February 18th, 2010
In King v. McMillan, the Fourth Circuit affirmed a jury verdict and the court’s rulings in a sexual harassment case. The plaintiff, a former deputy in a sheriff’s office, had been sexually harassed by the sheriff over several years. A jur… Read More
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Categories: Judicial Decisions
Tags: Battery, Case Commentary, Discrimination, Fourth Circuit, Labor and Employment, Punitive Damages, Sexual Harassment, Title VII

The 4th Circuit Court Held that an Inability to Work Overtime did Not Constitute a Substantial Limitation on a Major Life Activity Under ADA

February 15th, 2010
In Boitnott v. Corning Inc., Michael Boitnott began work with Corning as a maintenance engineer in 1989. Like others at that facility, he worked rotating twelve hour shifts and alternated two weeks of day shifts with two weeks of night shifts. Boitno… Read More
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Categories: Judicial Decisions
Tags: ADA, Appeals, Case Commentary, Fourth Circuit, Labor and Employment

Patterson Harkavy Supporting N.C. ACLU's Annual Dinner

February 13th, 2010
Patterson Harkavy is a sponsor at tonight’s 41st Annual Frank Porter Graham Awards Ceremony, hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation. This year’s honorees are: Frank Porter Graham Award – Jimm… Read More
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Categories: News of the Firm
Tags: Civil Rights, Firm News, Frank Porter Graham Ceremony, NC ACLU, Patterson Harkavy

NC Court of Appeals' Latest Decisions on Workers' Compensation and Personal Injuries

February 11th, 2010
Last week, the North Carolina Court of Appeals published four opinions concerns concerning workers’ compensation and personal injury cases. In Berardi v. Craven County Schools, the Court considered and described the Industrial Commission’… Read More
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Categories: Judicial Decisions
Tags: Appeals, Bicycle Accidents, Car Accident, Case Commentary, Clinchers, Disability Benefits, Governmental Immunity, Industrial Commission, Medical Motions, Negligence, Personal Injuries, Workers' Compensation

Improvements for Employer-Provided Health Insurance

February 10th, 2010
The Obama administration proposed new rules recently that should improve insurance coverage of mental health care for more those fortunate to have medical insurance through their jobs. The rules implement the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental H… Read More
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Categories: Legislative Action
Tags: Administrative Rulemaking, Congress, Health Care, Labor and Employment, Medical Insurance, MHPAEA

NC Supreme Court Goes Awry in Workers' Comp Case on Notice

February 7th, 2010
In Gregory v. W.A. Brown & Sons, the North Carolina Supreme Court has at the very least made a simple area of the law very complicated, and at worst dealt a severe blow to injured workers with little legal justification. At issue is the employee… Read More
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Categories: Judicial Decisions
Tags: Appeals, Case Commentary, Industrial Commission, NC Supreme Court, Notice to Employer, Workers' Compensation

Burton, Hank, Mike, and Jonathan Recognized as North Carolina "Super Lawyers"

February 2nd, 2010
Four of Patterson Harkavy’s attorneys have been named North Carolina “Super Lawyers” for 2010 in a recent study by Law & Politics magazine. The findings are published in the February 2010 edition of the North Carolina Super Lawyers maga… Read More
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Categories: News of the Firm
Tags: Burton Craige, Hank Patterson, Jonathan Harkavy, Labor and Employment, Leto Copeley, Medical Malpractice, Michael Okun, Personal Injuries, Recognition, Super Lawyers, Valerie Johnson, Workers' Compensation
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