Workers' Compensation News
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Court Dismisses Worker's Challenge to Calculation of Benefit Rate as Moot | 09/01/2026 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s challenge to the calculation of his temporary income benefit rate as moot. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Penalty on Claims Administrator for Failing to Timely Act on IME Report | 09/01/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a $1,500 penalty against a claims administrator for failing to act on an independent medical examiner’s report within 30 days. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Decision Authorizing Arthroscopy Not Clearly Wrong | 08/31/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| The Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia affirmed a Workers' Compensation Board of Review decision authorizing an arthroscopy of a firefighter's left wrist because it was not clearly wrong. ...Read More | |||
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Court: JCC Should Have Awarded Reimbursement of Guardianship Expenses for Injured Worker | 08/28/2026 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that a judge of compensation claims should have awarded reimbursement of the expenses a mother incurred in pursuing a guardianship for her son after he suffered a compensable, catastrophic brain injury. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Worker's Claim for Stress-Related Psychological Injury | 08/28/2026 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s claim for a psychological injury caused by her work-related stress. ...Read More | |||
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Contractor Charged With Failing to Carry Comp Coverage | 08/26/2026 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that the owner of a contracting firm who allegedly fled a job after receiving a stop-work order for not carrying comp coverage has been formally charged. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Worker's Claim Was Time-Barred | 08/25/2026 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s cervical spine injury claim was time-barred. Case: Conrad v. Food Lio...Read More | |||
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Court Affirms Aggravation Finding, Need for Surgery | 08/25/2026 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a compensable injury aggravated a worker’s preexisting ankle condition, which resulted in her need for surgery. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Summary Dismissal of Civil Suit for Nurse's COVID Death | 08/25/2026 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld the summary dismissal of a civil suit against a hospital for the death of an immunocompromised emergency room nurse after she contracted COVID-19. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Worker Entitled to Expand Claim, Receive Additional Treatment | 08/24/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker was entitled to expand the scope of his claim and to receive additional medical treatment. ...Read More | |||
