Workers' Compensation News
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Committee Passes Bill to Adopt Market Value for Room, Board | 11/17/2025 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The value of room and board paid to workers as part of their wages would default to the market rate for calculating benefits under a bill moving through the New Jersey Legislature. ...Read More | |||
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Court Orders Further Factfinding on Worker's Ability to Land Alternate Employment | 11/14/2025 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The North Carolina Court of Appeals ordered additional proceedings on whether a worker was able to find alternate employment and on his potential wage-earning capabilities. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Statutory Fee Cap | 11/14/2025 | |
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| State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals upheld the constitutionality of a statutory cap on attorney fees at 15% of the compensation awarded or paid to an injured worker. ...Read More | |||
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Court Denies Writ Relief for Worker in Challenge to MMI Finding | 11/13/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that a worker was not entitled to writ relief directing the Industrial Commission to vacate its finding that she had reached maximum medical improvement for her physical injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Court Shuts Down School Custodian's COVID Claim | 11/13/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a finding that a school custodian was exposed to an elevated risk of contracting COVID-19 in his workplace. ...Read More | |||
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Company to Pay $125,194 for Exposing Workers to Pesticides | 11/12/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Northern California company was ordered to pay almost $1,300 for each of the 93 laborers a supervisor ordered to work in a lettuce field freshly sprayed with pesticides, the Monterey County District Attorney's Office announced. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Finding of Compensable Neck Injury | 11/12/2025 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker’s neck injury was compensable. Case: E.G. Middleton Inc...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Summary Judgment for Labor Law Defendant | 11/11/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment for a Labor Law defendant on a worker’s claim for a fall from a ladder. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Occupational Pneumoconiosis Claim | 11/11/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s claim for occupational pneumoconiosis. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Collateral Estoppel Bars Police Officer From Challenging Subrogation of Third-Party Settlement | 11/11/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that collateral estoppel barred an injured police officer from challenging her employer’s subrogation of her third-party settlement. ...Read More | |||
