Workers' Compensation News
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Contractors Charged With Submitting Fraudulent Work Comp Certificates to Obtain Licenses | 09/09/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nassau County District Attorney's Office charged four New York contractors with submitting fraudulent workers' compensation certificates to obtain contractor licenses. ...Read More | |||
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Commission Properly Reduces Worker's Permanent Disability Rating | 09/09/2026 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Missouri appellate court upheld a decision by the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission to reduce a worker’s permanent partial disability rating from 25% to 7%. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Widow's Claim That Job Stress Led to Husband's Death | 09/09/2026 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld the denial of a widow’s claim that work-induced stress was a contributing factor to her husband’s heart disease and death. ...Read More | |||
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Court Publishes Split Decision on Employee's Selection of Doctors | 09/08/2026 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court ordered publication of its split decision finding that a worker did not exceed his allowable selection of two physicians to treat his compensable injury. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Jury's $22.5 Million Award for Concrete Form Collapse | 09/08/2026 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned a $22.5 million award of damages for a group of employees injured by the collapse of a concrete form during a road construction project against the engineers ...Read More | |||
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Carrier Owed No Coverage to Employer for Worker's Fatal Accident | 09/04/2026 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court upheld a determination that an insurance carrier owed no coverage to an employer for a worker’s fatal accident at a construction site. ...Read More | |||
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Court Publishes Decision Finding Out-of-State NFL Player Can Pursue Comp Claim | 09/03/2026 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Maryland Appellate Court ruled that a professional football player who has not physically completed any of his job duties in Maryland may still be a covered by the state comp system if he expected to be “regularly employed” within the state. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Request for Reconsideration, Board Review | 09/03/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the denial of a worker’s request for reconsideration or full board review of the denial of his claim for a shoulder injury. ...Read More | |||
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Court Partially Overturns Denial of Worker's Requests to Expand Claim | 09/02/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals partially overturned the denial of a worker’s requests to expand his claim to include additional conditions and for referrals to a cardiologist, gastroenterologist and vascular surgeon. ...Read More | |||
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Court Dismisses Worker's Challenge to Calculation of Benefit Rate as Moot | 09/01/2026 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s challenge to the calculation of his temporary income benefit rate as moot. ...Read More | |||
