Workers' Compensation News
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Contractor Sentenced in $1.2 Million Workers' Comp, Tax Fraud Scheme | 07/18/2025 | |
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| The owner of a Long Island demolition company was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution for defrauding workers’ compensation insurers and the IRS, New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang announced. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Worker's Petitions for Reinstatement, Penalties Properly Dismissed as Untimely | 07/18/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the denial of a worker’s petitions for reinstatement of benefits and penalties as untimely. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds 57% PPD Award for Injured Worker | 07/18/2025 | |
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| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a 57% permanent partial disability award to a worker for his injuries from a tractor-trailer accident. ...Read More | |||
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Commissioner Says Rate Hike a Warning of Growing Costs | 07/17/2025 | |
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| By: Greg Jones (Senior Editor) | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said the first rate increase in a decade should serve as a warning of increasing workers' compensation costs. ...Read More | |||
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Court Publishes Knee Injury Claim Decision | 07/17/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ordered publication of its decision upholding benefits to a worker for the aggravation of his preexisting knee condition. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Summary Judgment for Worker, Revives Third-Party Claim | 07/17/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment on a worker’s Labor Law claim for a fall from a ladder and revived the defendant’s third-party breach of contract claim. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Employer's Termination of Benefits | 07/16/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld a determination that an employer was entitled to terminate its payment of benefits to a worker and that he was not entitled to an award of fees and costs. ...Read More | |||
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Commissioner Approves 8.7% Rate Increase, First Since 2015 | 07/15/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The workers' compensation pure premium advisory rate will increase 8.7%, effective Sept. 1, the first rate hike in California since the start of 2015. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Claim Due to Lack of Credibility | 07/15/2025 | |
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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 due to his lack of credibility. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Court Orders Recalculation of Sanctions on Employer for Unfair Claims Processing, Bad Faith | 07/14/2025 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New Mexico Court of Appeals upheld a judge’s finding that an employer engaged in unfair claim processing and bad faith, but remanded for the judge to redetermine the appropriate penalties. ...Read More | |||
