Workers' Compensation News
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Appeals Court Affirms Attorney Fee Awards on Remand | 12/23/2025 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled that injured workers who challenged the constitutionality of a cap on attorney fees are not entitled to additional compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Postal Worker Indicted for Allegedly Not Disclosing Divorce | 12/23/2025 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A U.S. Postal Service worker was indicted for allegedly failing to disclose a divorce, thereby collecting augmented workers' compensation benefits to which she was not entitled, according to federal prosecutors in Illinois. ...Read More | |||
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Discount Rate Declining in First Quarter of 2026 | 12/23/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation is reducing the discount rate used to calculate the present value of future weekly payments for lump-sum settlements. ...Read More | |||
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Paralysis Fraud Case Leads to 31-Month Sentence, $537,071 Restitution Order | 12/23/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio man who claimed he was paralyzed after a workplace electric shock pleaded guilty to theft of government property and wire fraud, and he was sentenced to 31 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $537,071 in restitution, the Bureau of Workers' Compensation announced. ...Read More | |||
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Court Affirms Dismissal of LHWCA Claim | 12/23/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of a longshoreman’s claims for his injuries from a fall from a ladder leading to a ship’s cargo hold. ...Read More | |||
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Nicholas Roxborough Elected CHSWC Chairman | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation elected Nicholas Roxborough to serve as chairman in 2026. ...Read More | |||
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Jury Acquits Neurosurgeon on Conspiracy Charge | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A jury acquitted a Southern California neurosurgeon charged with conspiracy to commit workers' compensation fraud, according to a report by MyNewsLA.com and informati...Read More | |||
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Appeals Court: Cadets Covered by Immunity Waiver for Retaliation | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court, in a case of first impression, held that a Houston Police Academy cadet is covered by the waiver of governmental immunity that allows first responders to sue their employers for workers' compensation retaliation. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Medical Clinic's Comp Coverage Obligation | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a medical clinic was subject to the workers’ compensation law because it regularly employed more than five people and that an employee was entitled to benefits for her injuries from assisting a falling patient. ...Read More | |||
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Part of Worker's Labor Law Claim Dismissed; Some Defendants Get Indemnification | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that part of a worker’s Labor Law claim should have been dismissed and that some of the defendants were entitled to indemnification from his employer. ...Read More | |||
