Articles by Jim Sams

The 911 dispatch center that employed Mandy Tripp denied her workers’ compensation claim for post-traumatic stress syndrome because fielding calls... Read More

A federal appellate court on Thursday cleared the way for thousands of Houston-area property owners and their insurers to pursue... Read More

Jerry Harwood couldn’t collect workers’ compensation benefits after he was paralyzed when he was struck by a car while trying... Read More

A Washington state law that requires plaintiffs to file a declaration declining arbitration when filing a medical malpractice suit does... Read More

Workers’ compensation claimants don’t have to prove that the physicians appointed to resolve medical disputes have an “actual bias” —... Read More

Ditch diggers who accepted work assignments online and used their own spades and shovels to do the work cannot be... Read More

California employers that fail to allow employees to take required rest and meal breaks may be held liable for penalties... Read More

The size of payouts for legal malpractice claims reached an all-time high last year, and for the first time some... Read More

Roofs and walls on a busy business stretch were turned to tangled rubble. Mobile homes were destroyed. Tornadoes are so... Read More

A federal appellate court threw out a Florida jury verdict that would have required a Liberty Mutual unit to pay... Read More