Workers' Compensation News
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Deputy Sheriff Not Entitled to Benefits for Heart Attack | 09/17/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a denial of benefits for a deputy sheriff’s heart attack. Case:...Read More | |||
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DWC Posts 2026 Compliance and Investigations Audit Plan | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation said compliance and investigations audits in 2026 will focus on timeliness and accuracy of benefit payments, reimbursement for medical services and data reporting. ...Read More | |||
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Death Benefit Expansion, Farmworker Presumption Head to Governor | 09/15/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers voted to send Gov. Gavin Newsom bills expanding workers’ compensation coverage for farmworkers with heat injuries and dependents of fallen first responders. ...Read More | |||
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DCBS Cutting Rates 3.3% | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services said employers will pay an average of 3.3% less for workers’ compensation coverage next year. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Lacks Jurisdiction to Alter Fee Award to Worker | 09/10/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that the Division of Workers’ Compensation lacked jurisdiction to alter an attorney fee award and impose it against an insurance carrier instead of having the fees paid from an injured worker’s supplemental income benefits. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Updates Fee Schedules | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers' Compensation announced fee schedule updates to conform to changes made by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. ...Read More | |||
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Defendants in Civil Suit Over Worker's Electrocution Get Partial Summary Judgment | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Delaware Superior Court ruled that the defendants in a civil suit over a worker’s electrocution were entitled to partial summary judgment dismissing the claims against them and that the employer was entitled to summary judgment dismissing a third-party complaint against it. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Proposes Amendments to SIB Rules | 08/27/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation proposed amendments that it says will better align the language of its supplemental income benefit rules with statutory requirements. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Proposes MTUS Update | 08/26/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers' Compensation is proposing to update the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule to adopt four of the latest guidelines published by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. ...Read More | |||
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Deadline for Recon Doesn't Implicate Fundamental Jurisdiction, Is Subject to Equitable Tolling | 08/21/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appeals court rejected a request to wait until the state Supreme Court clarifies the deadline for the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board to act on petitions for reconsideration, and said the 60-day window can be disregarded when the three elements of equitable tolling are satisf...Read More | |||
