Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Fails to Prove It Lacked Timely Notice of Worker's Injury | 02/20/2024 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals rejected an employer’s claim that it had not received timely notice of an employee’s work-related injury. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Gets New Trial on Damages Owed to Worker | 02/15/2024 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that an employer was entitled to a new trial on the issue of economic damages owed to a former employee for its retaliatory conduct and for a determination of whether her award would duplicate what she received in workers' compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Not Entitled to Summary Dismissal of Third-Party Indemnification, Contribution Claims | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the denial of an employer’s motion for summary judgment dismissing claims for indemnity and contribution by the defendant in an action filed by an injured worker. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Gets Credit for Benefits Paid to Worker | 01/24/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the retroactive application of Act 111’s credit provision to an employer that made 500 weeks of benefit payments to an injured employee. ...Read More | |||
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Evidentiary Ruling Results in Reinstatement of COVID-Related Death Claim | 01/11/2024 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Arizona Court of Appeal set aside a denial of benefits for a police officer’s death from COVID-19-related complications. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Employee Without Valid Settlement Can't Pursue Breach-of-Contract Claim | 12/21/2023 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that no valid compromise and release agreement existed between an employee and her employer, so she could not pursue a contract action to force a settlement to which the employer had not agreed. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusive Remedy Bars Wrongful Death Claim by Worker's Daughter | 12/06/2023 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Maryland Appellate Court ruled that workers' compensation exclusivity barred the adult daughter of a worker involved in a fatal accident from bringing a claim against the employer under the Wrongful Death Act. ...Read More | |||
| Employment Practices Liability Insurance Provider Had No Duty to Defend Employer | 12/04/2023 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that an employment practices liability insurance provider had no duty to provide coverage to an insured for claims filed by a former employee. ...Read More | |||
| Exclusivity Barred Worker's Parents from Pursuing Civil Remedy for Fatal Car Accident | 11/30/2023 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court upheld a finding that a traveling worker’s death from a car accident occurred within the course and scope of her employment, which prohibited her parents from seeking a civil remedy for her demise. ...Read More | |||
| Employer Fined $201,573 for Explosion | 11/28/2023 | ||
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined a manufacturer of industrial gas $201,573 for what the agency called a preventable explosion that injured five workers and several first responders. ...Read More | |||
