Workers' Compensation News
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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 | |||
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Employer Must Pay for Injection Recommended by Doctor | 08/24/2023 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Utah Court of Appeals upheld an order for an employer to pay for an injection that a doctor recommended as part of a worker’s treatment. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Bar Use of Audio Recordings as Evidence | 08/24/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an allegedly injured worker’s employer was not entitled to a discovery sanction barring any party from using audio recordings of conversations between the worker and the company’s owner as evidence at trial. ...Read More | |||
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Exclusive Remedy Bars Mother's Suit Over Son's Murder by Co-Worker | 08/10/2023 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Appellate Court of Illinois upheld a determination that the exclusive remedy provision of the Workers’ Compensation Act barred a mother’s lawsuit against her slain son’s employer for his murder by a co-worker. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Gets Relief From Discovery Order in Personal Injury Action | 08/07/2023 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that an employer was entitled to conditional writ relief vacating a trial judge’s order compelling it to produce discovery in an employee’s civil suit for an allegedly work-related injury. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't End Benefits Based on Return-to-Work Clearance | 07/31/2023 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that an employer improperly terminated an employee’s benefits based on the opinion of a referred specialist clearing him to return to work without any similar recommendation from the treating physician. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Loses Challenge to TTD Award | 07/31/2023 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| An Ohio appellate court denied an employer’s request for relief from a temporary total disability award to an employee to whom it had offered light-duty work. ...Read More | |||
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Economic Recovery Helps Drive 14% Increase in Premiums | 07/26/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California workers’ compensation premium levels increased 14% in 2022 as a result of the economic recovery following the pandemic, according to the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. ...Read More | |||
