Workers Compensation Death Benefits

The deposition of Dr. Joe Gonzales occurred on March 16, 2016. Dr. Gonzalez was retained by Plaintiff as an expert in this case and was requested to prepare a life care plan for Plaintiff’s future medical care needs. Dr. Gonzales has served as a life care planner since 1988, when he received is license to practice medicine. He became a certified life care planner in 2006. He is a medical doctor in San Antonio who is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain medicine, and occupational and environmental medicine. Half of his work consists of treating patients and the other half consists of preparing life care plans related to litigation. When he does life care planning work, 85-90% of that work is on behalf of the plaintiffs in the respective litigation. He sees on average 20-50 patients a week in his medical practice. He has not practiced in a hospital in at least 10 years.

I also advised the medical examiner of all the medication's Wilbert was taking. II gave the medical examiner the number to Wilbert's personal Dr. Preston at Sapulpa St. John's. The medical examiner wavied juridiction and allowed the family to contact Hutchins-Maples Matherly Funeral Home to pick up the body. The medical examiner called me to advise she spoke to Dr. Preston who stated he would sign off on the death cerfificate. Hutchins-Maples Matherly arrived and took possession of the body at 7:17pm. The list of Wilberts medication are listed

Throughout the late 1900s and early 2000s, Charles Smith began receiving many concerns and negative attention of his methods of collecting evidence, methodology, and conclusions. On June 7th of 2005, Dr. Barry McLellan (then the Chief Coroner for Ontario) and Michael Bryant (then the Attorney General) announced in a press release that a formal review will be conducted. In the October 2007 report, Dr. McLellan concluded that Smith’s findings of asphyxia were “illogical and completely against scientific

With regard to Ms. Green’s claims against O’Brien, it is apparent that Ms. Green was O’Brien’s client, and that O’Brien owed Ms. Green a duty. Should this case proceed to trial we do not anticipate that we would argue to a jury that O’Brien did not neglect this duty. Rather, there are serious questions as to whether “the negligence resulted in and was the proximate cause of loss to the client.” Kendall v. Rogers, 181 Md. 606, 611-12 (1943). Indeed, the estate will have to demonstrate that Ms. Green would have prevailed in proving that one or both health care provider defendants committed medical negligence that caused her to fall into the diabetic coma.

On Monday, 11-16-2015 she recalled the claimant had punched in early for work that morning and did not say anything to her until shortly later around mid-morning when the claimant came into her office. She said the claimant was brief with her when she requested to file a Workers’ Compensation claim for her alleged right wrist injury coupled with pain to her right fingers. She claimed that her injury was work-related, and her injury occurred on 11-12-2015.

Internal Briefing Report for the Death of Sharon Jane Miller Case Summary As a medico-legal investigator, I am tasked to prepare an internal final case briefing report as regards the death of Sharon Jane Miller. The final case briefing report is intended to help the Chief Medical Examiner (ME) in determining the cause of the victim's death. As such, this final case briefing will be attached to the case and the autopsy reports for the ME's perusal. As mentioned above, the case question is about the death of Sharon Jane Miller, who was born on October 7, 1987.

On the morning of August 16, 2017, Wilma Waedle came to my office to discuss a past workman’s comp claim. According to her personnel file, the workman’s comp claim that she was referring to was closed in 2015. That released her to full duty as a Qualified Medical Administration/Certified Nursing Assistant. Ms. Waedle stated that her arm from the previous claim was still causing her pain. She also stated that she had the doctor cleared her so she could continue to work but did not get to the real cause of her pain.

On Thursday, 10/22/2015 the claimant stated he reported for work pain-free and was not suffering from any pain or discomfort from four other work related injuries that he reported as claims and received judgments. The claimant was unable to account for the real dates of his past work-related injuries that occurred between 2010 and 1/2013. The claimants past industrial-related injuries ranged from a left wrist injury, head injury and two separate right wrist injuries which he says did not include any injury to any other body parts.

I attended a hearing on your behalf in the above-referenced matter before Judge Burke in Hudson, New York, on 05/17/2017. The claimant was present by phone and was represented by attorney Bob King. Mr. Rumsey was present from the Special Funds 15-8 Unit.

The undersigned attended the Mandatory Settlement Conference at the Stockton Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board on June 14, 2017. The undersigned appeared on behalf of Mr. Rod McClelland. Mr. McClelland had an unavoidable calendar conflict on the day of the hearing; therefore, I appeared on his behalf on a one-time basis. The file will be returned to Mr. McClelland for further handling. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact myself or Mr. McClelland.

As you know, this is an accepted industrial injury claim to applicant’s left shoulder and low back. This claim is based on a specific injury as a result of an acute incident on August 18, 2015. The applicant was involved in a motor vehicle accident.

Employee John Lee (Regular FS employee-Forester-PRRD) was taking his work capacity test at the Chadron High school track when at approximately 10:00am started to experience fatigue and then collapsing on his last lap. Cyd Jenssen (Public Affairs Officer-S.O.) an RN nurse, Mike MattMiller (Job Corps Fire CRWB-S.O) and Ben Jech (Engine Crew Lead Member-PRRD) both former EMT’s assisted John at the scene. Ice packs were placed under arm pits and oxygen was administered until the arrival of the ambulance. John was conscience during the entirety of the incident. John was transported by ambulance arriving at the Chadron Community Hospital at 10:20am. Fluids were administered by IV. Was noted from the MD doctor that John had a significant case

I advised my dispatch to contact the medical examiner and have them call me. I spoke to the medical examiner at 4:49pm and advised Sami Richardson of all Irene's medical conditions and medications. I advised the medical examiner of Irene's cancer doctor Mark Olsen at the Tulsa Cancer Institute. The medical examiner called me at 5:21pm and advised she spoke to Irene's doctor and he said he would sign the death certificate. At 5:21pm the medical examiner waived jurisdiction and released the body to the family.

As requested, I have reviewed the facts of the above-captioned file, along with the applicable law and summarized same in this memorandum. Mrs. Mary Smith suffered an injury to her right ankle in an automobile accident on 10/3/95. After surgery and months of rehabilitation, Mrs. Smith still suffers daily. I have researched the facts regarding a personal injury action against Paul Joseph, as well as a medical malpractice action against the medical providers.

Joanna is an experienced nurse taking care of Mrs. Kelly, who was Joanna’s patient many times in the past for her primary problem which is COPD. This time Mrs. Kelly was admitted with complaints of abdominal pain what was different from her primary diagnoses. Her vital signs were with normal limits and no significant changes from privies results, but for the nurse she looks sick, and Joanna know that something is wrong. She calls the resident doctor, but he tell her to watches and calls back with series changes. Joanna multiple attempts to report that something needs to be done to evaluate the cause of Mrs. Kelly pain was ask to calm down. However nobody took patient symptoms series and the next day patient died.