Labor Advocates Not Pleased, but Living with Deliberate-Intent Exception Compromises

Labor advocates in West Virginia weren’t exactly happy with the compromises they made with the business community to tighten the standards for an injured worker to file a deliberate-intent action against an employer. But they’re living with the new standards. In particular, claimants’ attorneys said Friday, they’re accepting new impairment-percentage thresholds that an injured worker must be rated in order to assert, through a lawsuit, that the employer acted with deliberate intent in causing the injury. Those thresholds – 13% for permanent partial disability, 1...