Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Must Pay Enhanced Award for Violation of Specific Safety Requirement | 04/18/2024 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld an enhanced award of benefits to an injured worker, finding his employer’s violation of a specific safety requirement for hydraulic presses was the proximate cause of the accident. ...Read More | |||
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Embattled Contractor Accused of Failing to Carry Comp | 03/14/2024 | |
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| State: ME | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A contractor in Maine who was acquitted on manslaughter charges after a jury determined his workers were independent contractors with the autonomy to choose for themselves whether to follow safety rules is now facing charges of failing to carry workers’ compensation, according to ...Read More | |||
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Ex-Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to $35,000 Benefits Fraud | 03/08/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A former New York corrections officer who took more than $35,000 in workers' compensation indemnity benefits to which he was not entitled pleaded guilty Thursday to insurance fraud and grand larceny, both felonies. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusive Remedy No Bar to Civil Rights Claim for Forced Strip Search | 02/28/2024 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that neither qualified immunity nor the exclusive remedy provision of Virginia’s Workers’ Compensation Law barred a nurse’s civil rights claims of being strip-searched as she reported for a job assignment at a jail. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Establishes Exclusive Remedy Defense to Worker's Civil Suit | 02/26/2024 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that an employer covered by a workers' compensation policy was entitled to summary judgment dismissing a civil suit by an employee who had already received benefits for her injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Not Credited for Payments to Worker With 'Concurrent Dissimilar Employment' | 02/21/2024 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that an employer was not entitled to a credit for the benefits paid to an injured worker with “concurrent dissimilar" employment. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Fails to Prove It Lacked Timely Notice of Worker's Injury | 02/20/2024 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals rejected an employer’s claim that it had not received timely notice of an employee’s work-related injury. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Gets New Trial on Damages Owed to Worker | 02/15/2024 | |
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| State: AK | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that an employer was entitled to a new trial on the issue of economic damages owed to a former employee for its retaliatory conduct and for a determination of whether her award would duplicate what she received in workers' compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Not Entitled to Summary Dismissal of Third-Party Indemnification, Contribution Claims | 01/26/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the denial of an employer’s motion for summary judgment dismissing claims for indemnity and contribution by the defendant in an action filed by an injured worker. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Gets Credit for Benefits Paid to Worker | 01/24/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the retroactive application of Act 111’s credit provision to an employer that made 500 weeks of benefit payments to an injured employee. ...Read More | |||
