Workers' Compensation News
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Split Supreme Court Won't Expand Scope of Worker's Claim to Include Anxiety Disorder | 04/19/2023 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of an electrician’s request to expand the scope of his workers’ compensation claim to include generalized anxiety disorder. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Committee Approves PTSD Expansion, System Study | 04/17/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement unanimously passed bills that would expand the post-traumatic stress disorder presumption and require a study into whether California’s workers’ compensation system treats men and women differently. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Surgery, Additional Benefits for Worker With Wrist Injury | 04/17/2023 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s request for surgery and additional benefits for a wrist injury. Cas...Read More | |||
| Split Supreme Court Upholds Denial of PTD Benefits for Knee Injury | 04/14/2023 | ||
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a denial of permanent disability benefits to a mine worker for a knee injury. ...Read More | |||
| Staffing Company, Employee Not Liable for Injury | 04/14/2023 | ||
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Mississippi Court of Appeals ruled that a staffing company and its employee were entitled to summary judgment dismissing a tort claim by an injured worker who was a borrowed co-employee from a different staffing company. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Award for Worker's Back Injury Without Apportionment | 04/13/2023 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously upheld an award of benefits to an injured worker without apportioning any of his impairment to a preexisting degenerative back condition. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Overturns Denial of Benefits for Worker With Back Injury | 04/12/2023 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court overturned a denial of benefits to a mine worker for his back injuries from exiting a mantrip. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Says Voluntary Separation Isn't Spousal Desertion | 04/11/2023 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a married couple's separation did not result in spousal desertion, so the husband remained entitled to benefits after the wife died from a drug overdose. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Denies Worker's Request for Repayment of PPD Benefits | 04/11/2023 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s request for repayment of permanent partial disability benefits offset against overlapping permanent total disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Revisits Worker's Ability to Collect UM Benefits for Accident Caused by Colleague | 04/10/2023 | |
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| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The South Carolina Supreme Court revisited its ruling on the determination of the amount a plaintiff is "legally entitled to recover" from an underinsured motorist provision of an insurance policy when the at-fault motorist is a co-employee. ...Read More | |||
