Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Liable for Benefits, Penalties, Fees to Worker for Fainting Episode | 08/04/2020 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld an award of benefits, penalties and attorney fees to a worker for dehydration and heat exhaustion on a construction project. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Hit With Fee Award for Refusal to Pay for Worker's Medication | 08/04/2020 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel ruled that a worker is entitled to attorney fees for the work her lawyer performed on her claim after her employer refused to pay for medication. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusion of Testimony Doesn't Constitute Prejudicial Error in FELA Case | 07/28/2020 | |
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| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that a trial court did not prejudicially err in preventing a witness from testifying that an employer’s modifications to a forklift may have led to its tipping over and causing injury. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Get Summary Dismissal of Claims for Indemnity, Contribution | 07/27/2020 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an employer is not entitled to summary judgment dismissing a claim for indemnification and contribution for an employee's brain injury. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Raise Defense After Failing to Timely Respond | 07/22/2020 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that an employer is precluded from raising a defense to a worker’s claim after failing to timely respond or pay benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Eight Cases Pending at High Court on Retroactivity of HB 2 Reform | 07/21/2020 | |
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| By: William Rabb (Reporter) | |||
| State: KY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Eight challenges to 2018 reform provisions are now pending before the Kentucky Supreme Court. All of the cases focus on one of the most contenti...Read More | |||
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Employer's Delay in Filing Response Precludes Defense of Claim | 07/21/2020 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that an employer’s delay in filing a contest to a worker’s claim precluded its defense. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Use Worker's Leave Time to Avoid Paying Benefits | 07/17/2020 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that an employer could not use a worker’s stockpile of leave time to avoid the payment of benefits for his injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Employers Must Respond to Claims Within 30 Days | 07/01/2020 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Starting Wednesday, Virginia employers must respond to injury claims within 30 days, the result of a law adopted by the Virginia legislature earlier this year. ...Read More | |||
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Edwards Signs Liability Protection Laws, Ends Death Benefits Remarriage Penalty | 06/18/2020 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a slew of bills into law this week, including ones that would protect employers from liability lawsuits and another that would enhance workers' compensation death benefits. ...Read More | |||
