Workers' Compensation News
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Ex-Wife of Firefighter Can't Get His Pension Benefits After Dissolution Was Vacated | 03/20/2023 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court ruled that the ex-wife of a deceased firefighter was not entitled to his pension benefits even though their dissolution of marriage was set aside. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Gets Dismissal of Claims for Indemnification, Contribution | 03/15/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured worker’s employer was not subject to liability for contribution and indemnification to a defendant the worker sued for on-the-job injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Apportion Permanent Disability to Preexisting Condition | 03/13/2023 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals ruled that an employer was not entitled to apportion a worker’s permanent impairment to a preexisting degenerative condition. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusive Remedy Doesn't Bar Suit Over Mass Shooting, but Negligence Claims Fail | 03/06/2023 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Maryland Appellate Court ruled that the exclusive remedy rule did not bar three workers from maintaining a tort suit against a warehouse operator arising from a mass shooting as a matter of law, but their claims failed because they could not show the attack was a reasonably foreseeable event....Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Present New Evidence to Challenge Liability | 02/21/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Board properly declined to review documentary evidence that an employer failed to present at a hearing on liability for a worker's benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Gets Summary Dismissal of Injured Employee's Deliberate Intention Claim | 02/09/2023 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s deliberate intention claim against his employer for his injuries from falling out of a broken chair. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Not Liable for Death Benefits for Employee's Fatal Shooting | 02/07/2023 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court ruled that an employer was not liable for death benefits for the fatal shooting of an employee by her boyfriend at her workplace. ...Read More | |||
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Experts ID Tips for Managing Chronic Pain | 01/27/2023 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| One of the best ways to mitigate chronic pain issues in workers’ compensation is to keep people working, industry experts said in a special report by WorkCompCentral. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Get Credit for Payments Made to Injured Worker Pursuant to CBA, Comp Act | 01/20/2023 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court upheld a denial of an employer’s claim for credits based on the payments it made to an injured employee pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement and the Workers' Compensation Act. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusive Remedy Prevents Bus Driver From Seeking Damages | 01/19/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a county employee was barred by the exclusive remedy of the Workers’ Compensation Law from pursuing a civil suit against a co-employee who was allegedly at fault for an accident. ...Read More | |||
