Workers' Compensation News
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High Court Splits on Amount of Benefits Due to Comatose Worker
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09/20/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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A narrowly divided Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the denial of scheduled-loss benefits to the estate of a quadriplegic worker for 14 of the 16 years he survived in a near-vegetative state after an industrial accident.Even though Dean Sziraki undisputedly lost the use...Read More
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Hanover Enhances Small Business Owners' Offering, Agent Portal
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09/20/2013
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State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Hanover Insurance Group has added dozens of new business owners’ policy classes to its slate of commercial insurance products.The new classes include coverage for associations, art galleries, learning centers, mobile pet groomers, market research firms, court reporters and inde...Read More
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High Court Reverses Denial of Benefits for Worker's Carpal Tunnel
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09/20/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: WV | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The West Virginia Supreme Court overturned an administrative denial of a worker's claim for benefits based on her carpal tunnel syndrome.Case: Rader v. Nicholas County Community Action Association, No. 11-1718, 09/10/2013, published.Fa...Read More
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High Court Rejects Request for Treatment 10 Years Post-Injury
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09/19/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: WV | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker's requests for a referral to a pain clinic and five different prescription medications, which came nearly a decade after he had suffered an on-the-job soft tissue injury to his back.Case: Bryant v. Wes...Read More
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High Court to Consider Oral Args in Traveling Employee Dispute
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09/18/2013
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State: IL | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Illinois Supreme Court will consider oral arguments this morning in a dispute about whether an employer should be liable for a pipefitter's injuries that occurred while traveling to his second day of work on a temporary assignment 250 miles from his home. The high court is schedu...Read More
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High Court Clarifies Standard for Reviewing Commission Decisions
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09/13/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: SC | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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An employer was not bound by the findings of fact and conclusions of law reached by the Workers' Compensation Commission in a non-final order determining that it was liable for the payment of benefits to an injured worker, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled.C...Read More
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High Court Denies Challenge of SEUS Bailout by Insolvency Pool
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09/10/2013
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State: GA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
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By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe Georgia Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Georgia Insurers Insolvency Pool has no authority to challenge 2010 legislation that allowed the policyholders of failed workers' ...Read More
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High Court Says Tort Claim against Comp Firm Barred by Exclusivity
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09/10/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: MS | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Supreme Court ruled that two legal assistants for a toxic tort and workers' compensation defense firm could not sue their former employer in tort for injuries they allegedly sustained from their workplace exposure to mold.Case: Bowden v. Young, No. 2011-IA-01...Read More
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High Court to Rule on Standard of Proof for Retaliatory Discharge
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09/09/2013
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By: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)
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State: MO | Segment: CENTRAL | 0 | Popular with Legal
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The Missouri Supreme Court will hear oral argument this week about whether an employer's discriminatory animus must be the exclusive cause of the employer's decision to terminate an injured worker for the worker to prevail on a wrongful discharge action.John ...Read More
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