[nfbmi-talk] zimmer and a g warren in other news

[Terry D. Eagle]

Well, isn't that interesting.  Who could or would ever imagine that a state
official, especially Mr. Mike Zimmer, an attorney himself, would ever
violate any state law?  I am shocked that anyone, especially a judge would
suggest such a thing of a state official, let alone come to such a
conclusion.  I am sure, even though Asst. Attorney General Tom Warren would
not comment on such finding by a judge, I am certain Mr. Warren had advised
his fellow attorney Zimmer to simply follow the law, as if Zimmer, an
attorney himself, had to be advised to simply follow the law.  I am simply
shocked! 

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Judge orders Genesee County workers' compensation claims heard locally, not
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on November 20, 2012 at 4:45 PM, updated November 20, 2012 at 4:46 PM

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FLINT, MI - Two weeks after

stopping a local man's workers' compensation case from being transferred

out of the area, Genesee County Circuit Judge Geoffrey L. Neithercut ordered
the state not to move subsequent Genesee County workers' compensation
hearings

to the town of Dimondale in southwest Michigan.

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On Nov. 5, Robert MacDonald, attorney of plaintiff Lawrence Younkin, was
successful in his lawsuit against the Michigan Administrative Hearing System
and

its director, Mike Zimmer, for plans to close the Flint Workers'
Compensation Agency and have Genesee County cases heard in Dimondale.

 

The judge ordered Younkin's case to be heard locally. However, the ruling
applied only to Younkin's case, not all workers' compensation cases in
Genesee

County.

 

On Monday, Nov. 19, Neithercut ordered state officials to hold all workers'
compensation hearings in the locality where the injury occurred,  as
required

under Michigan law.

 

"This court is not in the business of directing parties to ignore the laws
of this state. This court will not direct defendants to ignore the laws of
the

State of Michigan as to other applicants," Neithercut said in his written
opinion.

 

"Therefore, defendants shall rescind the directive that cases arising out of
Genesee County be transferred to a hearing site in Dimondale."

 

MacDonald said that the judge's ruling was accurate because the burden of
driving nearly 70 miles from the site of an accident to hear a case should
not

be on an injured worker.

 

"The Legislature made this the law because it is simply not fair to require
injured workers or local businesses to drive across the state for numerous
hearings

in order to pursue or defend against these claims," he said in an email to
MLive-Flint Journal.

 

Calls to Zimmer's office were not returned and the Michigan Attorney
General's office said the lawyer representing Zimmer -- Thomas Warren --
would not

comment on the case.

 
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