Workers' Compensation News
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Firefighter Not Entitled to Change Start Date for PTD Benefits | 05/29/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that a firefighter was not entitled to relief from an administrative order establishing the start date for his permanent total disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Feds Unseal Fraud Charges Against Corrections Officers | 05/22/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced the unsealing of three indictments charging one current correctional officer and two former officers at Rikers Island with fraud. ...Read More | |||
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Fire Department Fails to Rebut Presumption of Compensability for Death | 05/22/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld a determination that a firefighter’s death was presumptively linked to his employment, but the fire department reasonably contested the compensability of his demise. ...Read More | |||
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Failure to List Exhibits on Conference Statement Not a Harmless Error | 05/20/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board erred when it held that the failure to list in a pretrial conference the statement reports from a qualified medical evaluator was harmless, a California appellate court ruled. ...Read More | |||
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Firefighter Proves Compensability of Knee Injury | 05/16/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding of compensability for a firefighter’s knee injury. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Four Sentenced in $110 Million Kickback Conspiracy | 05/13/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Four men who participated in a prescription referral kickback scheme received prison sentences, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. ...Read More | |||
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Firefighter Cancer Bill Heads to Governor | 05/09/2025 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Connecticut lawmakers voted to send the governor a bill that would make various changes to the program providing quasi-workers’ compensation benefits to firefighters with certain types of cancer. ...Read More | |||
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Four Indicted in Alleged Off-the-Books Payroll Scheme | 05/08/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Federal grand jurors last week indicted four Florida residents who allegedly ran an illegal payroll system to avoid taxes and to shortchange workers' compensation insurers. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Court Rejects Employer's Challenge to PTD Award for Longshoreman | 05/06/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court denied an employer’s challenge to an award of permanent total disability benefits to an injured longshoreman. ...Read More | |||
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Firefighter Gets PTD Award for Post-Retirement Heart Condition | 05/02/2025 | |
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| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nevada Court of Appeals upheld an award of permanent total disability benefits to a firefighter who developed a disabling heart condition after she had retired. ...Read More | |||
