Workers' Compensation News
|
En Banc WCAB Denies Reconsideration of Nunes Decision | 08/31/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
|
Employer Must Pay for Injection Recommended by Doctor | 08/24/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
|
Employer Can't Bar Use of Audio Recordings as Evidence | 08/24/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
|
Exclusive Remedy Bars Mother's Suit Over Son's Murder by Co-Worker | 08/10/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
|
Employer Gets Relief From Discovery Order in Personal Injury Action | 08/07/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
|
Employer Can't End Benefits Based on Return-to-Work Clearance | 07/31/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
|
Employer Loses Challenge to TTD Award | 07/31/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
|
Economic Recovery Helps Drive 14% Increase in Premiums | 07/26/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
|
Employer's Failure to Repair or Replace Safety Guard Does Not Constitute 'Removal' | 07/13/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that an employer should have been granted summary judgment dismissing an employee’s intentional tort claim because its failure to repair or replace safety guards on its equipment did not demonstrate an intent to injure. ...Read More | |||
|
Exclusivity Doesn't Bar Family's Claim Against Employer for Asbestos Exposure | 07/13/2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that the exclusive remedy of the Workers’ Compensation Act did not bar a tort suit by the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma. ...Read More | |||
