Workers' Compensation News
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Worker's Appeal Fails Due to Lack of Challenge | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel ruled that a worker’s failure to challenge both bases given by a judge for denying her motion to set aside a settlement was fatal to her appeal. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Treatment, but Not Additional TTD, Expansion of Claim | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that a worker was not entitled to additional temporary total disability benefits or to expand the scope of her claim, but she should not have been denied a cold compression therapy unit and shoulder wrap for her compensable injury. ...Read More | |||
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Worker at World Trade Center Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claims | 09/12/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a World Trade Center Oculus worker was entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claims. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets 13% PPD Award for Neck Injury | 09/09/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a 13% permanent partial disability award for a worker’s injuries. Case: ...Read More | |||
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WCD Proposes Reducing Workers' Benefit Assessment | 09/09/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division recommends lowering the Workers' Benefit Fund Assessment to 1.8 cents per hour from 2 cents per hour. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Prove Back Injury, Entitlement to Additional TTD, Fees | 09/08/2025 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker had not sustained a compensable low-back injury, was not entitled to additional temporary total disability benefits for her compensable right shoulder injury and was not entitled to attorney fees. ...Read More | |||
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WCRI Webinar to Cover CompScope Findings | 09/08/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers Compensation Research Institute is holding a free webinar Sept. 25 to cover its CompScope Benchmarks for Florida report and other recent research. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Excluded From LHWCA Properly Asserts Negligence Claims | 09/05/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appeals court ruled that a maintenance worker injured while boarding a vessel at a yacht club can pursue tort claims against his employer. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Mileage Reimbursements Properly Excluded From AWW Calculation | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s average weekly wage was properly calculated as excluding the mileage reimbursements she received from her employer. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Who Fell From Scaffold Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim | 09/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a construction worker should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his injuries from a fall from a scaffold. ...Read More | |||
