Workers' Compensation News
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CWCI: Claims Down, Losses Up for Private Self-Insured Employers | 06/03/2026 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Private self-insured employers reported fewer claims in 2025, but initial data shows signs of rising claim costs, the California Workers' Compensation Institute said. ...Read More | |||
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Amended Bill Proposes 51% PPD Benefit Hike | 06/03/2026 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Permanent partial disability benefits would increase by about 51% under a recently amended bill proposing the first benefit increase in California since SB 863. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Death From Aortic Dissection Not Compensable | 06/03/2026 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld a denial of benefits to the mother of a grocery store worker who died of an aortic dissection after the end of his shift. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Opens Investigation Into Fatal Tank Collapse | 06/03/2026 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries opened an investigation into the May 26 Longview chemical tank collapse that killed 11 workers. ...Read More | |||
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Industrial Code Insufficiently Specific to Support Labor Law Liability | 06/03/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A majority of New York’s highest court ruled that an Industrial Code provision on excavation was not specific enough to support liability under the Labor Law. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Gets Partial Summary Dismissal of Claims Against It | 06/03/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured worker’s employer was entitled to summary judgment dismissing the common-law indemnification claims against it, and on a counterclaim alleging that it failed to procure insurance. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Claim for Exposure to Solvent | 06/03/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s claim of injury from his exposure to a chemical solvent. ...Read More | |||
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High Court: Rehearing Not Needed to Preserve Error on Rejected Argument | 06/02/2026 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Claimants do not have to file a motion for rehearing to preserve error on an argument that the Workers' Compensation Commissioner rejects without a specific discussion, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled. ...Read More | |||
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Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty in Quarter-Million Dollar Fraud Case | 06/02/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A former New York corrections officer pleaded guilty to making a false statement relating to healthcare matters and agreed to pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars in restitution. ...Read More | |||
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Court Reverses Trial Judge's Determination of Carrier's Subrogation Interest | 06/02/2026 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Texas appellate court overturned a trial court’s determination that a workers’ compensation insurance carrier was not entitled to recover the $350,000 it paid in medical benefits for a teacher’s injuries before her death. ...Read More | |||
