Number 1. Joint and Several LiabilityI occasionally see references to the nature of ALMA member’s liability as “Joint and Several”. This is a serious misstatement.In fact, ALMA members are NOT, and...

I’m adding to my list of landmark Longshore Act Supreme Court decisions with a case that arose under the Defense Base Act (42 U.S.C. 1651, et seq.) (DBA). The case is O’Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon,...

Recently I’ve discussed issues arising under the Longshore Act that present conflicts among the federal circuit courts of appeal or other uncertainties. These issues would benefit from a resolution...

We observed last time that the issues involved in the “concurrent” jurisdiction question included the competing concepts of individual state police powers versus the need for uniform federal...

Earlier in 2016, I discussed the last case on my list of the top six landmark Longshore Act cases. This time what I’d like to do is to identify the landmark cases that we need but that we don’t yet...

There are employers who need Longshore Act coverage but don’t have it. These employers have employees who met the status and situs requirements for Longshore Act coverage, but the employers are...

Before I get to number six on my list of landmark Longshore Act cases decided at the U.S. Supreme Court, here is the list of numbers one to five as discussed here in the past couple of months. ...

Case number five on my list of the Supreme Court’s landmark Longshore cases is Potomac Electric Power Company v. Director, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, 449 U.S. 268 (1980). This is...

Here is number four on my list of the Longshore Act’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases. It’s Sun Ship, Inc. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al., 447 U.S. 715 (1980). This is the decision...

This is a continuation of a brief list of calendar year 2015 Longshore Act related cases from the Benefits Review Board and the federal courts of appeal that I found interesting. Crosby Forbes v....

As I noted last time, calendar year 2015 was a routine year for Longshore Act litigation. There were no cases decided at the U.S. Supreme Court and no new conflicts were created among the federal...

Here’s my third nomination for “landmark” case status on our Longshore scale of cases decided at the U.S. Supreme Court. But first, here’s parts of section 33 of the Longshore Act (33 U.S.C. 933).

I have a second case to nominate as a “landmark” U.S. Supreme Court Longshore Act case ( see the discussion of Northeast Marine Terminals Co., Inc. et al. v. Caputo, et al. from last time ). My...

There are decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that are referred to as “landmarks”. These landmark decisions are significant events in history in their own right. They address/resolve/create national...

National Average Weekly Wage The U.S. Department of Labor has released Industry Notice No. 154, dated September 8, 2015. The Subject is: Maximum and Minimum Compensation Rates Under the Longshore...

This is a continuation of our discussion concerning the authority and responsibility of the U.S. Department of Labor’s District Directors in the adjudication/administration of claims under the...

The U.S. Department of Labor, which administers the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, has a three step process for adjudicating claims. The first step is informal proceedings at the...

I’ve discussed the Defense Base Act (DBA) (42 U.S.C. 1651) on several previous occasions so I’ll just briefly review it here and then discuss one particular aspect. The DBA is a workers’...

Principal Skinner once introduced Lisa Simpson as, “The answer to the question nobody asked”. Yes, Lisa could occasionally be an annoying, obtrusive know it all. In that same vein, it has occurred...

Yogi Berra might have said this. “Some questions always come up, because they don’t come up that often.” You know. Sort of like, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded”. Questions continue...