Workers' Compensation News
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Coal Mine Employee Gets Benefits for Hearing Loss | 06/06/2022 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a longtime coal mine employee was entitled to benefits for his noise-induced hearing loss. Case:...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Award to Worker for Unexplained Injury | 06/06/2022 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| In an “unusual” case, the Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a health care worker for an ankle injury that inexplicably occurred as she was walking and turning into a patient’s room. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Injured Worker Should Have Been Granted Leave to File Late Claims | 06/03/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an injured worker should have been granted leave to serve and file late claims against the defendants in an action in the Court of Claims. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Awards of Benefits, Fees, Penalties to Injured Delivery Driver | 06/02/2022 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld an award of benefits, attorney fees and penalties to a delivery driver for two injuries despite the employer’s claim that it was unaware of the second injury. ...Read More | |||
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Court Tosses Worker's Untimely Motion for Leave to Renew Claim | 06/02/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s untimely motion for leave to renew a claim for an alleged injury on a construction project. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Determination of Worker's Ability to Hold Job, Confirms Denial of Interest to Employer | 06/01/2022 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld a determination that an injured worker retained the ability to work in a sedentary capacity and that her employer was not entitled to interest on the credit it was awarded against her future benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Health Care Workers Didn't Commit Misconduct in Forming Rival Practice | 06/01/2022 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld a judgment that a group of workers who left a health care business serving workers’ compensation claimants did not engage in any wrongdoing by forming their own similar practice. ...Read More | |||
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Contractor Doesn't Have Immunity to Claims Arising From Coal Ash Cleanup | 06/01/2022 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that the prime contractor for a coal ash cleanup project was not entitled to derivative immunity as a corollary of the discretionary function exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Dismissal of Labor Law Claim by Worker Who Allegedly Fell on Debris | 06/01/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s Labor Law claim for his alleged fall on a pile of debris generated by the demolition work he was helping perform. ...Read More | |||
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Court Properly Denies Leave to Amend Answer | 05/31/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a property owner was properly denied leave to amend its answer to an injured worker’s lawsuit in order to assert an exclusive remedy defense. ...Read More | |||
