Workers' Compensation News
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Court Overturns Summary Judgment for Labor Law Defendant | 01/29/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment for a Labor Law defendant, finding triable issues existed to allow the claim to proceed against all defendants. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Damages in Widow's Gross Negligence Claim Against Employer | 01/28/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Texas appellate court overturned an award of $2.2 million in damages to a worker’s widow on her gross negligence claim against the worker’s employer. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Dismissal of Worker's Request for Sanctions Review | 01/24/2025 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of an injured worker’s effort to overrule an order that imposed a sanction for her service of a subpoena on her employer’s expert witness. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Worker Should Have Been Granted Summary Judgment on Scaffold Accident Claim | 01/24/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to summary judgment on her Labor Law claim for her injuries from a scaffold accident. ...Read More | |||
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Court Affirms Denial of Benefits, Penalties for Cop With COVID-19 | 01/23/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Philadelphia Police Department does not owe benefits or penalties for terminating benefits it was paying to a police officer who missed more than a year of work because of COVID-19. ...Read More | |||
| Chesapeake Employers' Insurance Names Chief Growth Officer | 01/23/2025 | ||
| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance Co. on Wednesday named Jodi M. Swartz as the company’s senior vice president and chief growth officer, effective Feb. 18. ...Read More | |||
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Court Affirms Finding That Worker's Earnings Were Too Speculative to Calculate TD | 01/21/2025 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission correctly determined that an injured worker's proposed earnings were too speculative to require his employer to pay temporary partial disability benefits for time off work, a state appellate court ruled. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Determination of When Interest Attached to Carrier's Subrogation Claim | 01/21/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the determination that an employer began owing interest on its insurance carrier’s lien once an injured worker established the compensability of his claim and the carrier informed the employer of its intent to seek subrogation. ...Read More | |||
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Committee Hears Bill to Allow Treatment by Physician Assistants | 01/21/2025 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Montana legislative committee on Friday heard testimony but did not vote on a bill that would allow physician assistants to treat injured workers without any restrictions or other requirements. ...Read More | |||
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CMS Updates Set-Aside Guide | 01/21/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday published an updated Workers' Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement Reference Guide. ...Read More | |||
