Workers' Compensation News
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Conference Focuses on Safety in Paper, Pulp, Forest Products Industry | 11/05/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division is one of several partners presenting a four-day conference next month in Portland, focusing on improving worker safety and health in the state's pulp, paper and forest products industry. ...Read More | |||
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Texas Mutual Appoints New COO | 11/05/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that Prateek Sangal became its chief operating officer last month. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Worker's 10% PPD Award for Knee Injury Upheld | 11/05/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a 10% permanent partial disability award for a worker’s knee injury. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Establish Compensability of Alleged Repetitive Trauma Injury | 11/05/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s claim for a repetitive trauma injury. Case: Brown v. E...Read More | |||
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Worker, Defendant Get Summary Judgment on Labor Law, Indemnification Claims | 11/05/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should have been granted partial summary judgment on his Labor Law claims and that the defendants should have been granted summary judgment on their indemnification claim against his employer. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Benefits for Worker's Shoulder Conditions | 11/05/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of compensability for a worker’s right shoulder conditions and upheld the denial of authorization for treatment. ...Read More | |||
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Court Reinstates Injured Police Officer's Malpractice Claim Against Former Attorney | 11/05/2025 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Superior Court of New Jersey’s Appellate Division reinstated an injured police officer’s malpractice claim against his former attorney. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Upholds Award for Worker Who Passed Out While Operating Buggy | 11/04/2025 | |
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| State: AL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Alabama Court of Civil Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a worker for his injuries after he passed out from a coughing fit and crashed the vehicle he was driving on private property in the course of his employment. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Raise Causation Challenge in Proceedings on Worker's Petition to Reinstate | 11/04/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania said an employer could not raise a causation challenge in the proceedings related to a worker’s petition to reinstate benefits that had been suspended for the injuries the employer was now trying to contest. ...Read More | |||
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New Hearing Ordered on Worker's Application for Disability Retirement Benefits | 11/04/2025 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division ordered a new hearing on a worker’s application for disability retirement benefits, since the judge who rendered the decision upholding the denial of her application had not seen the testimony of the experts giving conflicting opinion...Read More | |||
