Workers' Compensation News
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Employer That Failed to Provide Treatment for Worker Can Still Direct Future Care | 05/15/2024 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Missouri appellate court ruled that an employer was entitled to direct a worker’s future medical care even though it had refused to pay for her treatment for more than a decade. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Hit With $1.7 Million Judgment for Misclassifying Workers, Underpaying Premiums | 05/02/2024 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington Court of Appeals upheld a $1.7 million judgment against an employer for deliberately misclassifying its workers and underpaying its premiums. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusive Remedy Shields Store From Sales Representative's Tort Claims | 05/01/2024 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled that a sales representative for a product vendor could not pursue a civil remedy from the store where he was injured. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Raise Exclusivity Defense to Tort Claims From Worker Shot by Colleague | 04/29/2024 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that an employer was barred from raising a workers’ compensation exclusivity defense to a worker’s civil suit over his shooting by a colleague. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Be 3rd-Party Defendant in Suit Over Fatal Wall Collapse | 04/19/2024 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that an employer could not be made a third-party defendant in a civil action filed by its employees arising from a fatal retaining wall accident. ...Read More | |||
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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 Insurance | |||
| 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 Employer | |||
| 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 | |||
