Workers' Compensation News
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Bakery Worker Gets Benefits for Knee Injury | 12/19/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a bakery worker was entitled to benefits for a knee injury. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Extend Presumptions to Hospital Security Guards | 12/12/2025 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Hospital security guards in Illinois would be covered by presumptions for blood-borne pathogens, heart and lung diseases, and other conditions, under legislation introduced ahead of the 2026 session. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Proposing Heart Disease Definition Returns | 12/12/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Florida lawmaker has resurrected a proposal to define the conditions covered by the law that presumes heart disease is compensable for first responders. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Authorize Penalties for Influencing Provider Choice | 12/10/2025 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Washington state lawmaker introduced legislation that would explicitly prohibit employers from steering injured workers to a specific provider by making such conduct a violation of good faith claims-handling laws. ...Read More | |||
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Board's Denial of Worker's Occupational Disease Claim Not Supported by Substantial Evidence | 12/08/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a Workers’ Compensation Board’s decision denying a worker’s claim for an occupational disease was not supported by substantial evidence. ...Read More | |||
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Benefits to Increase Nearly 5% in 2026 | 11/24/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Total disability benefits will increase nearly 5% next year to match the rise in the state's average weekly wage, according to the California Workers' Compensation Institute. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Double Allowance of Consent-to-Rate Policies | 11/24/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Florida lawmaker introduced legislation that would double the number of consent-to-rate policies that workers' compensation carriers are allowed to write. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Proposes National Protections for Firefighters | 11/20/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Senators from California and Utah introduced a bipartisan bill they say would create the first national respiratory protection standards for wildland firefighters. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Allow Physical Exam from Former Employer for Presumption Eligibility | 11/19/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill introduced in Florida would allow first responders to rely on a preemployment physical examination conducted before they started working for a former employer to establish the presumption that certain diseases arose from employment. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Presume TNC Drivers Are Employees | 11/14/2025 | |
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| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Massachusetts lawmakers are scheduled to hear testimony on a bill that would explicitly classify those driving for transportation network companies, such as Uber and Lyft, as employees. ...Read More | |||
