Workers' Compensation News
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High Court Declines to Hear Challenge in Case Involving Benefits for Undocumented Workers | 12/15/2025 | |
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| Michigan's Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision Friday, denied an application to review an appellate court decision dismissing a constitutional challenge to the law used to withhold indemnity benefits from undocumented workers who used fraudulent documents to secure a job. ...Read More | |||
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High Court: Comp Judge Can Rule on Law She Sponsored in Assembly | 12/12/2025 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed an appellate decision allowing a...Read More | |||
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High Court Upholds Finding That Firefighter Gets No Recovery for Recurrence of Injury | 12/08/2025 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Delaware Supreme Court upheld a determination that an injured firefighter was not entitled to any recovery for a worsening back injury because it was a recurrence of a prior injury for which he had executed a release and settlement. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Affirms Prevalence Assessment for COVID-19 Infections | 12/01/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New York's top court endorsed a method for workers to prove extraordinary COVID-19 exposure through frequent contact with the public or co-workers in areas where the virus is prevalent. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Finds PTSD Claims for COVID-19 Exposure Not Compensable | 11/26/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| New York's highest court said the State Workers' Compensation Board was not required to consider the prevalence of COVID-19 in the workplace when it rejected pandemic-related stress claims. ...Read More | |||
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Home Health Becomes Major Cost Driver for Most Severe Claims | 11/14/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Home health services account for more than a quarter of medical spending on $1 million workers' compensation claims, despite representing less than 3% of typical cases, the National Council on Compensation Insurance said in a research brief. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Won't Review Judge's Refusal to Set Aside Errant Benefit Notice | 10/31/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied a petition to review a judge's refusal to set aside a notice accepting liability for a firefighter's cancer claim that a city had intended to deny. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Says Carrier Entitled to Certification of Proper Insurer for Asbestos Claim | 10/27/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| In a long-running dispute over a worker’s benefits for asbestos exposure, the Kentucky Supreme Court held a carrier was entitled to certification identifying another carrier as liable for the claim after an administrative law judge revised the last date of injurious exposure. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Hearing Oral Arguments in Undocumented Worker Benefits Challenge | 10/07/2025 | |
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| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Michigan Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a constitutional challenge to a law being used to withhold wage-replacement benefits from undocumented workers who suffer compensable injuries. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Clarifies Standard for Calculating PPD Benefits | 10/06/2025 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Permanent partial disability benefits for nonschedule injuries must be calculated based on functional impairment instead of lost earnings when workers have returned to employment and earn at least as much as they did before an injury, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled. ...Read More | |||
