Workers' Compensation News
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AG Announces $1.4M Settlement With Construction Company | 10/22/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday announced a $1.4 million settlement with a construction firm that was accused of repeatedly violating the state's workers' compensation laws. ...Read More | |||
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AFL-CIO Bails on 'Agreed Bill' Process | 10/09/2025 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Illinois AFL-CIO told Gov. J.B. Pritzker that it is withdrawing from the agreed-bill process for revising work comp and unemployment laws, saying its good-faith participation is not being reciprocated in other states. ...Read More | |||
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Average Monthly Wage Properly Excludes Higher Earnings From Prior Position | 10/01/2025 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the calculation of a worker’s average monthly wage based on his actual income before his injury, not the higher earnings he had in a different position before an injury resulted in his move to the lower-paying post. ...Read More | |||
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Alcohol Intoxication Doesn't Bar Worker From Recovering for Catastrophic Injuries | 09/29/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s alcohol intoxication did not bar him from recovering benefits for his injuries that left him paraplegic after he fell from a scaffold. ...Read More | |||
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Appeal of Daughter's Comp Claim Fails Due to Insufficient Pleadings | 09/19/2025 | |
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| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Nevada Court of Appeals ruled that a mother’s failure to challenge all bases in the denial of her petition for review in her daughter’s closed workers’ compensation claim was fatal. ...Read More | |||
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Amended Farmworker, Presumption Bills Returning to Assembly for Concurrence | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate passed bills that would extend the heart trouble presumption to certain state hospital workers and presume that heat injuries are compensable for agricultural workers, sending the measures back to the Assembly for concurrence with recent amendments. ...Read More | |||
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Actuarial Committee to Explore Cumulative Trauma Claims | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Actuarial Committee for the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California will discuss strategies for more quickly identifying trends with cumulative trauma claims during a meeting on Tuesday. ...Read More | |||
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Administrator Unreasonably Denies Worker's Claim | 09/10/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a determination that an administrator unreasonably denied a worker’s claim for injuries from a locker falling on her. ...Read More | |||
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Amended Bill Would Require EOR to Justify Contractual Discounts | 09/09/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill that would have allowed California providers to use independent review to challenge contractual discounts applied to bills was amended to instead require payers to justify reductions in explanations of review. ...Read More | |||
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Assembly Passes Comp Bills | 09/02/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Assembly voted to send the governor bills to expand death benefits provided to children of first responders and provide full-pay salary continuation benefits to park rangers in Sacramento County. ...Read More | |||
