Workers' Compensation News
|
Labor Law Defendants Get Partial Summary Dismissal of Worker's Claims | 04/29/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the defendants in a Labor Law action should have been granted summary judgment dismissing part of the claims against them. ...Read More | |||
|
Federal Court Denies Challenge to Worker's Black Lung Benefits Award | 04/29/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court denied review of a coal mine operator’s challenge to a worker’s award of black lung benefits. Case:...Read More | |||
|
Court Upholds Worker's Entitlement to Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulator | 04/29/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a decision of the Board of Review finding that a worker was entitled to a neuromuscular electrical stimulator for her back injury. ...Read More | |||
|
Court: Determining Responsibility for Concealed Hazard Not Suited for Summary Judgment | 04/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Whether a subcontractor hired to line a pit with concrete was responsible for assessing the safety of the excavation work performed by the hiring party is a question of fact that precludes summary judgment, a California appeals court ruled in an unpublished decision. ...Read More | |||
|
Amended Presumption Bill Would Apply Retroactively to 2021 | 04/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Members of the Arizona House of Representatives added five years of retroactive effect to a bill intended to close a loophole that carriers have allegedly used to deny cancer claims from first responders that are presumed to arise from employment under state law. ...Read More | |||
|
IWCC Announces Arbitrator Transfers | 04/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission announced a pair of arbitrator transfers taking effect May 1. Arbitrators Linda Cantrell an...Read More | |||
|
Worker's Settlement With Employer Bars Her Second-Injury Fund Claim | 04/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a worker could not continue to pursue a claim against the state Second Injury Fund after entering a compromise settlement with her employer that did not establish the employer’s liability for her injury. ...Read More | |||
|
Exclusivity Doesn't Shield General Contractor From Liability for Worker's Death | 04/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that exclusivity did not shield a general contractor from liability for a worker’s death resulting from a fall that occurred when he came to the project site in preparation to bid on a subcontract. ...Read More | |||
|
Worker Gets Partial Judgment on Labor Law Claim; Employer Gets Dismissal of Third-Party Claim | 04/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to partial summary judgment on his Labor Law claim, and his employer was entitled to summary judgment dismissing the third-party claims against it. ...Read More | |||
|
Court Upholds Expansion of Worker's Claim, TTD Award | 04/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the expansion of a worker’s claim to include additional conditions and an award of temporary total disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
