Workers' Compensation News
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Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Request to Expand Claim | 04/23/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s request to expand the scope of her claim and to receive additional treatment. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Board Applied Incorrect Standard to Deny Worker's PPD Claim | 04/22/2026 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals said the Workers’ Compensation Board applied the wrong standard to deny a worker permanent partial disability benefits at claim closure. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds PPD Award, Reverses Order for Providers to Receive Direct Payment | 04/21/2026 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker was entitled to permanent partial disability benefits, but it reversed an award of fees and the directive for the employer to pay his medical providers. ...Read More | |||
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Court Affirms Compensability Determination for Unobserved Fall | 04/20/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appeals court affirmed the determination that a man's brain and head injuries were compensable even though the mechanism of the injury was unknown. ...Read More | |||
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Committee Passes Debit Card Bill | 04/17/2026 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Assembly Insurance Committee unanimously passed a bill that would permanently allow employers and carriers to use prepaid debit cards to provi...Read More | |||
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Court Remands Case for Proper Traveling Employee Analysis | 04/17/2026 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission performed the wrong legal analysis in awarding death benefits to the surviving heir of a woman who died in a car crash while delivering supplies for her employer. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Injured Worker Should Have Received Summary Judgment for Ladder Accident | 04/17/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his injuries from a fall from a ladder. ...Read More | |||
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Court Denies Dismissal for Defendant in Labor Law Claim | 04/16/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a Labor Law defendant was not entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s claims for her injuries from a scaffold accident. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Worker's Fee Award, Subject to Statutory Cap | 04/16/2026 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld a fee award of $4,200 for a worker in a long-running dispute over his entitlement to benefits, even though the fees he actually incurred far exceeded this amount, the statutory maximum available. ...Read More | |||
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Committee to Hear Reintroduced SIBTF Reform Proposal | 04/15/2026 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Assembly Insurance Committee is scheduled to hear testimony on a bill proposing reforms to the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust ...Read More | |||
