Workers' Compensation News
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Court: Employers Can't Limit Maintenance Medical in Final Admissions of Liability | 03/16/2026 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that employers cannot limit maintenance medical benefits to specific treatments in a final admission of liability. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Defendant's Motion to Designate Responsible Party Should've Been Granted | 03/13/2026 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that a trial judge should have granted the motion of a defendant in a civil suit for leave to designate the plaintiff’s employer a responsible party. ...Read More | |||
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Court Affirms Dismissal of Negligence Action Following Worker's Death | 03/12/2026 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Texas appellate court affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that the negligence of a contractor and subcontractor resulted in a worker's death. ...Read More | |||
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Court Partially Overturns Summary Judgment for Defendants in Labor Law Claim | 03/12/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the defendants in a Labor Law action were not entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s claims based on his fall from a ladder, except to the extent that he abandoned some of his claims. ...Read More | |||
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Commissioner Approves CompSource Reorganization Plan | 03/11/2026 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready approved a proposal to transition CompSource Mutual Insurance Co. into a mutual holding company structure. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Request to Expand Claim | 03/11/2026 | |
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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 request to expand the scope of his claim to add radiculopathy of the lumbosacral spine and degeneration of the lumbar intervertebral disc. ...Read More | |||
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Court Finds Ranch Hand's Tick-Borne Illness Compensable | 03/11/2026 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that a ranch hand’s tick-borne illness was a compensable occupational disease. Case: Mohler v...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Finding That Worker's Injuries Subject to PPD, Not SLU Award | 03/10/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a determination that a worker’s injuries were more amenable to a permanent partial disability classification than a schedule loss-of-use award. ...Read More | |||
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Court Affirms Benefits for Widow of Worker Who Died From COVID-19 | 03/09/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld an award of benefits to the widow of a truck driver who died of COVID-19. Case: Matter of Hogan v....Read More | |||
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Court: Federal Law Bars Cannabis as Treatment Under LHWCA | 03/06/2026 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Cannabis can't qualify as reasonable and necessary medical treatment under the Longshore Harbor and Workers' Compensation Act because it remains...Read More | |||
