Workers' Compensation News
|
EDD Reps Leaving WCAB District Offices | 05/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| State officials confirmed Wednesday that California’s Employment Development Department is pulling its physical offices out of workers’ compensation courthouses next month, a major operational shift that attorneys warn will stall case settlements. ...Read More | |||
|
Assembly Passes SIBTF Bill | 05/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The California Assembly passed a bill proposing numerous changes to the processes and requirements relating to the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund. ...Read More | |||
|
Worker, Defendant Each Get Partial Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claims | 05/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to partial summary judgment on his Labor Law claims and that a defendant was entitled to partial summary dismissal. ...Read More | |||
|
Summary Judgment Upheld for Worker Who Fell Into Unguarded Trench | 05/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment to a worker on his Labor Law claim for his injuries from falling into an unguarded trench. ...Read More | |||
|
Worker at MMI Still Entitled to Additional Treatment | 05/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the authorization of treatment for a worker’s compensable shoulder injury even though he had already reached maximum medical improvement. ...Read More | |||
|
Court Upholds Employer's Denial of Previously Accepted Combined Condition Claim | 05/28/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld an employer’s denial of a worker’s previously accepted combined condition claim. Case: ...Read More | |||
|
High Court: Speculative Medical Opinions Fail to Link Death From Cancer to Work Injury | 05/27/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NE | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Expert medical testimony that a worker may have lived longer if treatment for an industrial injury had not delayed treatment for metastatic cancer was too speculative to support an award of benefits, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled. ...Read More | |||
|
Court Says Summary Dismissal of Indemnification Claim Properly Denied | 05/27/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a third-party defendant in a Labor Law action was not entitled to summary judgment dismissing the contractual indemnification claim against it. ...Read More | |||
|
Court Revives Indemnification Claims Against Injured Worker's Employer | 05/27/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court revived the contractual indemnification claims by the defendants in a Labor Law action against the injured worker’s employer. ...Read More | |||
|
Court Upholds Finding of Compensability for Worker's Ankle | 05/27/2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker suffered a compensable injury when she rolled her ankle at work while rising from a chair. ...Read More | |||
