Workers' Compensation News
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Employer Can't Join Other Parties to Share Potential Liability for Fatal Claim | 06/18/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld an administrative decision finding that an employer could not join another entity and its insurance carrier as liable parties for a worker’s fatal accident. ...Read More | |||
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Exposure Testing Law for Air Ambulance Workers Takes Effect | 06/12/2024 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A law requiring the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation and self-insured public employers to pay for diagnostic testing after air ambulance workers are exposed to certain hazards takes effect today. ...Read More | |||
| Ethics Committee Finds One Incident of Misconduct in Two Years | 05/30/2024 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| 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 | |||
