Workers' Compensation News
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Court Upholds Award of Interim TTD for Injured Worker | 07/13/2022 | |
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| The Montana Workers’ Compensation Court ruled that a worker was entitled to an award of interim temporary total disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Comp Carrier Can't Assert Lien on Worker's Third-Party Recovery | 07/12/2022 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Georgia Court of Appeals upheld a grant of summary judgment denying an insurance carrier the ability to assert a lien against a worker’s third-party recovery. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds TTD Award to Worker for Aggravation of Preexisting Depression | 07/12/2022 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld an award of temporary total disability benefits to a school district employee for a substantial aggravation of a preexisting major depressive disorder. ...Read More | |||
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Court Tosses Worker's Challenge to Venue Transfer, Upholds Dismissal of DWC as Party | 07/11/2022 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court dismissed a worker’s challenge to a trial court’s order transferring venue and upheld the dismissal of the Division of Workers’ Compensation as a party to his suit. ...Read More | |||
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Chiropractor Not Entitled to Hearing on Denial of Application to Continue Treating Workers | 07/11/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the denial of a hearing to a chiropractor who lost authorization to continue treating injured workers because he had accepted kickbacks from a medical equipment supplier. ...Read More | |||
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Carrier Can Assert Lien on Worker's Malpractice Recovery From Former Attorneys | 07/11/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an insurance carrier was entitled to assert a lien against an injured worker’s malpractice settlement with her former attorneys. ...Read More | |||
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CWCI: COVID Claims Triple in May | 07/08/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Workers’ Compensation Institute on Wednesday reported that the number of claims for COVID-19 nearly tripled in May. &ld...Read More | |||
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Court Partially Vacates Worker's Fraud Conviction | 07/08/2022 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals vacated part of a criminal defendant’s conviction for workers’ compensation fraud saying the trial judge gave bad instructions to the jury and accepted a nonunanimous decision. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Reduction of Worker's SLU, Fee Awards | 07/07/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a reduction in a worker’s schedule loss of use and attorney fee awards. Case: Matter o...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of TTD to Worker but Finds Entitlement to SEB | 07/07/2022 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld the denial of temporary total disability benefits to an injured worker but found she was entitled to supplemental earning benefits because a vocational rehabilitation counselor had not identified reasonable positions available to her within her community....Read More | |||
