Workers' Compensation News
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Court Revives Worker's Claim for Bootlace-Tying Accident | 03/31/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An Ohio appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment for an employer that found a worker was not entitled to benefits for his injuries from a fall while trying to tie his bootlaces. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Worker's TTD Claim | 03/28/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld the denial of a worker’s claim for additional temporary total disability benefits. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Court Says Worker Did Not Act Unreasonably in Refusing to Attend Appointments | 03/28/2025 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Montana Workers’ Compensation Court overturned a finding that a worker unreasonably refused to attend two medical appointments, concluding he could not be compelled to attend either appointment and that his benefits should not have been suspended because he did not go. ...Read More | |||
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Committee Passes First Responder, Stone Manufacturing Safety Bills | 03/27/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement on Wednesday passed bills to address the safety of workers in stonecutting shops and to modify the special benefits provided to different types of first responders. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Third-Party Claims Against Worker's Employer | 03/27/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned the dismissal of the third-party claims by a group of Labor Law defendants against an allegedly injured worker’s employer. ...Read More | |||
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Court Orders Board to Recalculate Fees Owed to Worker's Attorneys | 03/26/2025 | |
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| State: HI | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Hawaii’s Intermediate Court of Appeals overturned an award of fees to the attorneys for an injured hotel worker, finding that the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations erred in denying payment for some services provided. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Death Benefits for Firefighter's Widow | 03/25/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld an award of death benefits to the widow of a cancer-stricken firefighter. Case: Ci...Read More | |||
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Cal/OSHA Cites Construction Company $157,500 for Fatal Trench Accident | 03/24/2025 | |
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| The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined a construction company $157,500 after a fatal trench collapse. Joel Olea Gomez, 2...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Reinstatement of Worker's TD Status, Orders Additional Proceedings | 03/24/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania vacated a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board that reinstated a worker’s total disability status, finding additional proceedings were necessary for a judge to determine whether the worker’s status should be modified....Read More | |||
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Circuits Split on Whether Enhanced PPD Award Can Count in Determining Fund Liability | 03/24/2025 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Missouri Court of Appeals now has a split among its districts, with the Southern District ruling that a prior enhanced permanent partial disability award cannot be used to add weeks of compensation to an otherwise nonqualifying injury to trigger the liability of the Second Injury Fund. ...Read More | |||
