Workers' Compensation News
|
Court Upholds Dismissal of Municipal Employee's Tort Suit Against Employer | 05/21/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of a municipal employee’s suit against her employer for her injuries from a fall allegedly caused by the city’s negligence in maintaining a walkway. ...Read More | |||
|
Court Upholds Denial of Caregiver's Request for Amended Complaint, Dismisses Claims | 05/20/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division upheld the denial of a caregiver’s request to amend her complaint as well as the dismissal of her claims against her alleged employers. ...Read More | |||
|
Court: Medical Resident's Wounds From Mass Shooting at Hospital Compensable | 05/17/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New York’s highest court unanimously ruled that when an employee is injured in an attack at work, his injuries are presumed to be compensable and that the lack of evidence as to the motivation for the assault does not rebut the presumption. ...Read More | |||
|
Casual Employment Threshold, TD Benefit and Attorney Fees to Increase | 05/17/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division announced that maximum temporary total disability benefits and attorney fees are increasing on July 1 along with the threshold used to determine whether employment is casual. ...Read More | |||
|
Court Upholds Causal Connection Between Coal Worker's Employment, Pneumoconiosis | 05/17/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court upheld a finding that a worker’s coal mine employment caused his pneumoconiosis. Case: Lance Coal...Read More | |||
|
CDI: Truck Driver's Death Exposes Premium Fraud Scheme | 05/16/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Department of Insurance announced that the owner of a Central Valley trucking firm was charged with fraud after the death of a driver revealed he allegedly underreported payroll by more than $2.3 million. ...Read More | |||
|
Companies Fined $650,000 After Worker Dies in Storage Facility | 05/16/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two companies were fined a combined $650,000 after a worker died in an apple storage facility that had a low oxygen level to prevent fruit from spoiling, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries announced. ...Read More | |||
|
Court Rejects Police Officer's Constitutional Challenges to IRE Process | 05/16/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected an injured police officer’s constitutional challenges to the state’s new impairment rating evaluation scheme. ...Read More | |||
|
Court Overturns Denial of Hotel Housekeeper's Claim for Knee Injury | 05/16/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Mexico Court of Appeals overturned the denial of a hotel housekeeper’s claim for a knee injury. Case: Moorhead v. Hya...Read More | |||
|
Court Overturns Denial of Benefits to Son of Fatal Heart Attack Victim | 05/15/2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court overturned a denial of benefits for the son of a worker who died of a heart attack. Richard Cronk worked for K...Read More | |||
