Workers' Compensation News
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Court Upholds Compensability of Poultry Plant Worker's Heart Attack | 04/12/2024 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Commission did not exceed the scope of its mandate in determining that a poultry plant employee was entitled to benefits for his heart attack at the age of 29. ...Read More | |||
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Comp Judges Reappointed to Five-Year Terms | 04/11/2024 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration announced that judges Tony Couture and David Skinner were reappointed to new five-year terms, effective Wednesday. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Loss-of-Use Calculation With Credit for Compensation Paid | 04/11/2024 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court upheld the calculation of a worker’s loss-of-use award as including a credit to her employer for a prior award. ...Read More | |||
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Court Tosses Worker's Challenge to Dismissal of Civil Suit | 04/11/2024 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court tossed a worker’s appeal of summary judgment in her civil suit for a work-related automobile accident. Cas...Read More | |||
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Court Denies Summary Judgment to Worker for Trip-and-Fall Claim | 04/10/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a denial of a worker’s motion for summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for a trip-and-fall accident. ...Read More | |||
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Court Sends Case Back to Board to Again Consider Merits of Claim | 04/09/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court sent a case back to the Workers’ Compensation Board for the second time, directing it to address the merits of the case as it had been instructed to do on the previous remittal. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Award of Fees to Former Counsel for Injured Worker | 04/08/2024 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court overturned an award of attorney fees to the firm that had previously represented an injured worker, finding it failed to provide evidence supporting the Industrial Commission’s calculation of reasonable compensation for its services. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Summary Judgment for Worker Who Fell From Ladder | 04/08/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment to a worker for his Labor Law claim based on his fall from an unsecured ladder. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Suspect's Motion to Suppress Evidence Should Have Been Granted | 04/05/2024 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that a criminal defendant’s motion to suppress evidence should have been granted because officers lacked probable cause to seize a backpack full of cash as evidence of a suspected fraud scheme. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Claim for COVID-19 Infection, Revives Claim for Mental Injury | 04/05/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the denial of a train operator’s claim for her alleged contraction of COVID-19 but overturned the denial of her claim for psychological injury arising from the prevalence of COVID in her workplace. ...Read More | |||
