Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Hit With Penalties, Fees for Denying Worker's Shoulder Surgery | 11/08/2023 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court assessed $2,000 in penalties and $1,000 in attorney fees against an employer for denying an injured worker’s shoulder surgery. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Loses Challenge to TTD Award for Worker Who Resigned | 11/01/2023 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that an employer was not entitled to mandamus relief from an administrative order granting temporary total disability benefits to an injured worker who had resigned from her job. ...Read More | |||
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Employer's Subsidiary Fails to Raise Viable Exclusivity Defense to Worker's Claim | 10/31/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the exclusive remedy provision of the Workers’ Compensation Law did not bar an employee’s civil suit against her employer’s wholly owned subsidiary. ...Read More | |||
| Excusive Remedy Barred Car Dealer Employee from Civil Recovery for Fall from Roof | 10/23/2023 | ||
| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of an injured worker’s claim against his employer as barred by the exclusive remedy provision of the Labor Code. ...Read More | |||
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Employment Agency Owner Sentenced for Fraud | 09/29/2023 | |
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| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The owner of an employment agency was ordered to pay more than $150,000 in restitution as part of her sentence for a workers’ compensation premium fraud scheme, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced. ...Read More | |||
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Engineering Firm Not Entitled to Summary Judgment on Indemnification, Contribution Claims | 09/26/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an engineering and consulting firm for a bridge rehabilitation and painting project was not entitled to summary judgment dismissing the indemnification and contribution claims against it arising from a worker’s injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Employer's Undisputed Violations of Law Don't Warrant Penalties | 09/14/2023 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld a denial of a worker’s request for penalties against his employer despite the company's undisputed violation of state the Workers’ Compensation Act. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can Compel Arbitration of Widow's Claim of Gross Negligence | 09/07/2023 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| A divided Texas appellate court ruled that an employer could compel a widow to arbitrate her gross negligence claim arising from her husband’s fatal work accident. ...Read More | |||
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Employer's Payment Records Properly Admitted Into Evidence; Attorney's Fee Properly Reduced | 09/06/2023 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| A Missouri appellate court upheld the evidentiary rulings allowing for the admission of an employer’s records of payment for a worker’s medical bills, as well as the reduction of the fee payable to the worker’s attorney. ...Read More | |||
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En Banc WCAB Denies Reconsideration of Nunes Decision | 08/31/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board sitting en banc denied a petition to reconsider a decision it issued in June holding that so-called “vocational apportionment” can’t supplant otherwise valid medical apportionment. ...Read More | |||
