Workers' Compensation News
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Court Upholds Dismissal of Claim by Worker Hired Without Consent of Owners, Contractors | 03/16/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the dismissal of a Labor Law claim by a worker who was surreptitiously hired by a nonsupervisory subcontractor’s employee. ...Read More | |||
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Court Grants Default Judgment Against Uninsured Employer, Imposes Assessments | 03/16/2023 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Delaware Court of Chancery granted a default judgment to the Department of Labor, imposing assessments and an injunction against an employer that failed to provide proof of workers’ compensation coverage for its employees. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Argument That Prop. 22 Usurps Authority to Create Comp Laws | 03/15/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A successful ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing firms that exempted their drivers from a new law that would have classified them as employees did not intrude on the Legislature’s authority to create a workers’ compensation system, according to a majority of justices on the Calif...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Safety Citations Issued Against Employer Under 'Marine Terminal' Standards | 03/14/2023 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington Court of Appeals overturned certain safety citations against a bulk transfer business, finding it did not qualify as a marine terminal, but that it was a grain handler. ...Read More | |||
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CWCI Elects 2023 Board of Directors | 03/13/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Sharon Thaler was reelected as chair of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute board of directors for 2023. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Additional TTD Benefits, Termination of SEBs | 03/13/2023 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld a determination that a worker was no longer entitled to temporary total disability benefits and that her right to supplemental earnings benefits had terminated. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Summary Judgment for Defendants in Labor Law Case | 03/10/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment for the defendants in a Labor Law claim, finding triable issues still existed as to the cause of the injured worker’s accident. ...Read More | |||
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Court Ignores City's Inadequate Briefing, Finds Partial Record Enough to Allow Review of Award | 03/09/2023 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| A divided Tennessee appellate court elected to ignore the deficiencies in a municipal employer’s briefing to address the merits of a dispute with a former employee and find the partial administrative record was adequate to allow a trial judge to review the propriety of an award. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Intentional Tort Claim by Worker Who Fell From Dangerously Overloaded Scaffold | 03/09/2023 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled that a grievously injured worker failed to assert a viable intentional tort claim against his employer for sending him to work on a dangerously overloaded scaffold that collapsed. ...Read More | |||
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Court Differentiates Analysis for Determining 'Employer' Status From That for 'Employee' Status | 03/09/2023 | |
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| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Michigan Court of Appeals revived a worker’s negligence claims against the company that paid him benefits for an on-the-job injury, finding a trial judge used the wrong analysis to determine if he was an employee of the business. ...Read More | |||
