Workers' Compensation News
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Bill Would Cap COLA Increases for Pensions at 3% | 12/24/2025 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Annual cost-of-living adjustments for permanent total disability pensions would be capped at 3%, under legislation filed ahead of the 2026 Washington state session. ...Read More | |||
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Black Lung Presumption for Underground Miners Can Apply to Surface Workers, Too | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that the presumption under the Black Lung Benefits Act for coal miners who put in 15 or more years of underground work can also apply to an above-ground worker. ...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
