These claims hold property owners responsible for injuries resulting from crimes that occur on their premises, emphasizing the need to foresee potential risks and take reasonable steps to prevent them.
'If you don't have the authorized treating physician's report releasing the person to full duty, then it's like a crapshoot,' Presiding Judge M. Yvette Miller said.
A recent bankruptcy case offers a cautionary tale to asbestos defendants who are watching their insurance assets dwindle as claims continue to be filed.
An idiopathic injury occurs when either the cause of an accident is unknown or when it is due to a personal condition of the employee with no relationship to a workplace risk or hazard. For an injury to be compensable under O.C.G.A. § 34-9-1(4), it must "arise out of" and occur "in the course of" employment.
The court will decide whether insurers should be allowed to forgo updating the statute of limitation for claims in their policies if that information is included in later endorsements.