Workers' Compensation News
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Court Upholds Death Benefits for Firefighter's Widow | 03/25/2025 | |
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| 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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| 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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| 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 | |||
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Court Revives General Contractor's Indemnification Claim Against Sub | 03/24/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court revived a general contractor’s claim against a subcontractor for indemnification from liability to an allegedly injured worker. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Order for Employer to Pay for Worker's FCE | 03/21/2025 | |
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| The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker’s functional capacity evaluation qualified as a compensable form of “necessary medical attention,” since it was not for the sole purpose of obtaining a permanency rating. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Denial of Benefits to WTC Site Volunteer | 03/21/2025 | |
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| A New York appellate court overturned the denial of benefits to a crisis response worker for her toxic exposures at the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. ...Read More | |||
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Committee Schedules Hearing on Pharmaceutical Fee Schedule Bill | 03/20/2025 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| A committee in the Maryland House of Delegates is scheduled to hear testimony March 26 on a bill that would authorize the Workers' Compensation Commission to create a pharmaceutical fee schedule. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Widow's Claim for Death Benefits | 03/20/2025 | |
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| A New York appellate court overturned the denial of a widow’s claim for death benefits. Case: Matter of Hanson v. General...Read More | |||
| Court Says Attorney's Conviction Violates Williamson Rule, Tosses 33 of 37 Verdicts | 03/19/2025 | ||
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| A California appeals court on Tuesday ruled that an attorney who participated in a kickback scheme was improperly charged with a general crime that carried a harsher penalty rather than a more specific crime with a lesser penalty and reversed convictions on 33 of 37 counts. ...Read More | |||
