Workers' Compensation News
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High Court Upholds Award for Worker With Spinal Cord Injury | 11/09/2021 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a worker was entitled to benefits for a spinal cord injury she suffered when a colleague pushed her to the ground. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Remands Lead Poisoning Case for Determination on Exclusivity | 11/08/2021 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Utah Supreme Court sent a case involving a worker’s claim of lead poisoning back to a trial judge to determine whether it is governed by the Occupational Disease Act or the Workers’ Compensation Act and whether the worker can avail himself of an intentional injury except...Read More | |||
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Hartford Partners With Yale on Pain Management Program for Injured Workers | 11/08/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Workers’ compensation carrier The Hartford announced a partnership with the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine to develop a training program focused on addiction, pain management and stigma for providers treating injured workers in Connecticut. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Upholds PTD Award for Cable Technician With Physical, Psychological Ailments | 11/03/2021 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld an award of benefits to a cable maintenance technician based on the combined effects of his physical injuries, psychological condition, age and vocational status. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Holds Federal Law Precludes Reimbursement for Cannabis | 10/15/2021 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Minnesota employers can’t be ordered to reimburse injured workers for medical cannabis because doing so would require them to violate federal law, the state’s high court ruled. ...Read More | |||
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Homeowner Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claims | 09/21/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the dismissal of a Labor Law and negligence action against a homeowner for a worker’s allegedly fatal injuries from a fall while cleaning the rain gutters on the home. ...Read More | |||
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High Court to Rule on Family's Entitlement to Post-Mortem Payment of Award | 09/16/2021 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New York’s highest court will weigh in on a family’s right to the remaining payments on a worker’s nonschedule permanent partial disability award in cases of death unrelated to a job injury. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Says Qualcomm Not Liable for Severe Burns Suffered by Contractor's Employee | 09/14/2021 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Supreme Court said Qualcomm Inc. owed no duty to a contractor’s employee who suffered third-degree burns after he triggered an arc flash from a circuit that he did not know was live. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Upholds Award of Benefits to Police Officer for Training Injury | 08/30/2021 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Virginia Supreme Court upheld an award of benefits to a police officer for an injury from a training activity, finding the Court of Appeals had misapplied the law of the case doctrine but correctly affirmed compensability. ...Read More | |||
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Health Co. Says VR Therapy Reduces Pain, Improves Recovery | 08/27/2021 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Digital health company Harvard MedTech said data shows its virtuality reality therapy can reduce chronic pain and narcotic use while improving overall recovery for workers’ compensation patients. ...Read More | |||
