In 1999, after working for Atchison Leather Prod-ucts, Inc., in Kansas for ten years, Beverly Tull be-gan
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(a) When an injured employee files a claim for work-ers’ compensation, a proceeding is held to assess the injury and determine the amount of compensation. Should a dispute between insurers over the payment of the claim be resolved in the same proceeding? Why or why not?
(b) The board designated April 23, 2002, as the date of Tull’s injury. What is the reason for determining the date of a worker’s injury? Should the board in this case have selected this date or a different date? Why?
(c) How should the board assess liability for the payment of Tull’s medical expenses and disability benefits? Would it be appropriate to impose joint and several liability on the insurers (holding each of them responsible for the full amount of damages), or should the individual liability of each of them be deter-mined? Explain.
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ISBN: 978-1285185248
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Authors: Kenneth Clarkson, Roger LeRoy Miller, Frank Cross
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