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	Court Denies Rehearing of Dispute Over Aggravation of Pre-Existing Condition		09/19/2017
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: UT | Segment: WEST | 170 | 0 | Popular with Insurance
	The Utah Court of Appeals is sticking to its determination that the state Labor Commission has been applying an overly strict standard for determining when a worker is entitled to benefits for the aggravation of a pre-existing condition. ...Read More

	Court Overturns Order Authorizing Treatment Without Finding of Compensable Injury		09/19/2017
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 180 | 0 | Popular with Legal
	The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals overturned an order authorizing a worker’s continued receipt of medical care without determining whether the worker had suffered a compensable injury, or how the injury occurred. ...Read More

	CWCI Reports First Signs of Decline in IMR Volume		09/18/2017
	By: Greg Jones (Deputy Editor)
	State: CA | Segment: Top | 1313 | 0 | Popular with Legal
	After increasing for each of the last two years, the California Workers’ Compensation Institute is projecting the number of independent medical review determinations will drop this year. ...Read More

	Court Faults Judge for Undertaking Independent Analysis of Worker's Physical Abilities		09/18/2017
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 229 | 0 | Popular with Legal
	A New York appellate court is ordering a workers’ compensation judge to reassess a permanently injured worker’s lost earning capacity, saying the judge erred in independently assessing the medical evidence to determine the worker’s exertional ability. ...Read More

	Court Upholds Apportionment of 50% of Schedule Loss Award to Prior Non-Occupational Injury		09/18/2017
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 216 | 0 | Popular with Legal
	A New York appellate court found substantial evidence supported an apportionment of 50% of a worker’s schedule loss of use award to her prior knee injury. ...Read More

	Carrier With Contingent Liability for Award Against Employer Lacks Standing to Challenge It		09/18/2017
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 263 | 0 | Popular with Legal
	A New York appellate court ruled that an insurance carrier that issued a contingent liability policy to an injured worker’s employer lacks legal standing to challenge an award to the employee. ...Read More

	Charli Baldinger Joins Goldberg Segalla in Garden City		09/18/2017
	State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 140 | 0 | Popular with Legal
	Charli Baldinger has been hired as an associate in the workers’ compensation practice at Goldberg Segalla in Garden City, New York. She...Read More

	Court Upholds Denial of Benefits for Construction Worker's Brain Injury		09/18/2017
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 245 | 0 | Popular with Insurance
	The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that a construction worker failed to prove the compensability of an alleged head injury due to his failure to link the injury to his workplace fall. ...Read More

	Court Yanks Family's VSSR Award for Worker's Electrocution		09/18/2017
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 193 | 0 | Popular with Legal
	An Ohio appellate court struck down an enhancement to a family’s award of benefits for a worker’s fatal accident due to a failure of the Industrial Commission hearing officer to adequately support the basis for the enhancement.   ...Read More

	Court Upholds WCJ's Refusal to Expand Nurse's Comp Claim for Hand Injury		09/15/2017
	Source: WorkCompCentral
	State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 302 | 0 | Popular with Insurance
	The Commonwealth Court ruled that a worker was not entitled to expand the scope of her comp claim, since the opinions of her medical experts were properly discredited by the workers’ compensation judge — although the judge discredited them for the wrong reasons. ...Read More