Workers' Compensation News
| Ethics Committee Finds One Incident of Misconduct in Two Years | 05/30/2024 | ||
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| The Workers’ Compensation Ethics Advisory Committee found a single instance of misconduct in complaints filed against comp judges in 2022 and 2023, according to a pair of reports the California Department of Industrial Relations recently posted to its website. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Partially Liable for Disability Can Claim Full Social Security Offset | 05/21/2024 | |
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| State: ME | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine ruled that an employer was entitled to take the full Social Security offset against its obligation for a worker’s benefits even though it was not the only party liable for his disability. ...Read More | |||
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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 | |||
