Workers' Compensation News
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Court Revives Trooper's Claim for Conditions Allegedly Linked to WTC Cleanup | 06/30/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court revived a state trooper’s claim for benefits for conditions he allegedly developed from exposure to toxins while working near the World Trade Center site after the 2001 terrorist attacks. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Order Compelling Employer to Produce Accident Report | 06/30/2021 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld a trial judge’s order compelling an employer to turn over a copy of an accident investigation. Cas...Read More | |||
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Court Strikes Changed Definition of 'Willful Negligence' | 06/30/2021 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division invalidated the Public Employees' Retirement System’s amended definition of “willful negligence” for workers seeking accidental disability pensions. ...Read More | |||
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Committee OKs Expanded PTSD Presumption, Apportionment Restrictions | 06/28/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Assembly Insurance Committee unanimously approved a bill that would expand a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is an occupational condition for specific public sector workers, despite objections that proponents haven’t demonstrated the need for the initial presu...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds BWC's Classification of Nonprofit Group as 'Special Public Authority' | 06/28/2021 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Courts | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that the Bureau of Workers' Compensation appropriately assigned a "special public authority" manual classification to a nonprofit corporation that provided services to public governing bodies. ...Read More | |||
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Court Can't Award Fees to Applicant Seeking Accidental Disability Benefits | 06/28/2021 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: Courts | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled that the statutory transfer of authority to the Workers' Compensation Court to hear appeals of claims for accidental disability retirement benefits did not vest the WCC with the power to award attorney fees and costs. ...Read More | |||
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Court Reinstates Award to Widow for Husband's Fatal Stroke | 06/28/2021 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: Courts | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals reinstated benefits to the widow of a worker who died from a stroke two years after an on-the-job head injury. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Declaratory Judgment Action on Pharmacy's Ability to Seek Payment | 06/24/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a trial court justice should not have dismissed a worker’s declaratory judgment action seeking a determination of whether a pharmacy can seek payment of a prescription bill from the responsible party in a plenary proceeding. ...Read More | |||
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Court Reverses Denial of Benefits for Worker Injured in Lunch Break Fall | 06/24/2021 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Georgia Court of Appeals reversed its prior decision denying benefits to a worker who fell while she was on her lunch break. ...Read More | |||
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Committee Unanimously Passes Presumption, Salary Continuation Measures | 06/23/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee unanimously passed measures that would allow California state firefighters to receive salary continuation benefits in lieu of temporary disability and create a presumption that skin cancer is compensable for the state’s park range...Read More | |||
