Workers' Compensation News
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NCCI: CMS Price Changes Not Significant Cost Driver | 08/29/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Adjustments that the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made to its reimbursement rates this year are not a significant work comp cost driver, the National Council on Compensation Insurance said Thursday in a ...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Prove Entitlement to PPD for Shoulder Injury | 08/29/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker was not entitled to a permanent partial disability award for a shoulder injury. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Upholds Finding of Total Disability, Partially Reverses Compensability Determinations | 08/29/2025 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Delaware Superior Court upheld a finding that a worker was totally disabled by multiple injuries, but it overturned some of the Industrial Accident Board’s findings of compensability as to individual injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Who Fell While Walking Dog Gets 13% PPD Award | 08/29/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a 13% permanent partial disability award for a school employee for his injuries from a fall while walking a dog. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Law Defendants Not Entitled to Summary Judgment | 08/29/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a denial of summary judgment on a construction foreman’s Labor Law claims. Case: Impagli...Read More | |||
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Amendment Would Limit Expansion of Heart Trouble Presumption | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill proposing to expand the presumption that heart trouble is a compensable condition was amended to specify that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation workers must be peace officers to qualify. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Reinstates Denial of Worker's Request for PTD Benefits | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Supreme Court reinstated the denial of a worker’s application for permanent total disability benefits. Randall Urban worked for Wan...Read More | |||
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Report: Computer System Upgrade Suspended for Lack of Progress | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Officials in Washington state have pulled the plug on efforts to upgrade the workers' compensation medical claims management system, citing a lack of progress over the last 10 years, ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Finding That Worker Suffered Discrete New Injury | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker had suffered a discrete, new compensable back injury. Cas...Read More | |||
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School Social Worker Gets Award for Injuries From Student Attacks | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld an award of benefits to a school social worker for his injuries from two assaults by students. ...Read More | |||
