Workers' Compensation News
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High Court: Reliance on Occupational Diseases, Nonqualifying Conditions Fatal to SIF Claims | 05/05/2025 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Missouri Supreme Court handed down two decisions finding that injured workers were not eligible for benefits from the state’s Second Injury Fund. ...Read More | |||
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High Court: Negligence Claim Against Nonsubscriber Not an Action to Collect Benefits | 04/29/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Texas Supreme Court said a negligence claim against a nonsubscribing employer is an action to recover damages that is distinct from an action to collect benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act. ...Read More | |||
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Homeowner Entitled to Summary Judgment Dismissing Worker's Labor Law Claims | 04/29/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment to a property owner dismissing a worker’s Labor Law claims against her. C...Read More | |||
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High Court: Landlord Failed to Rebut Presumption That Tenant Was Employee | 04/25/2025 | |
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| State: HI | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Hawaii Supreme Court held that a landlord failed to rebut the presumption that a tenant who performed maintenance work under a lease agreement was an employee who could pursue a comp claim for injuries sustained after falling from a roof. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Overturns Denial of Benefits | 04/22/2025 | |
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| State: SD | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The South Dakota Supreme Court overturned a denial of benefits to a worker, finding that his work injury was a major contributing cause of his condition and need for treatment, but the court upheld a finding that he was not permanently and totally disabled. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Upholds Compensability of Lineman's COVID-19 Disability | 04/17/2025 | |
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| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts upheld an award of benefits to a lineman for his total disability after a COVID-19 infection. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Rejects City's Argument to Recover $106,000 in Overpayments to Firefighter | 04/14/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| New York’s highest court rejected a city’s efforts to claw back $106,000 in overpayments to an injured firefighter. The New York Court ...Read More | |||
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Housekeeper Not Permanently Totally Disabled by Injuries, Depression | 04/09/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a finding that an injured housekeeper was not permanently and totally disabled by his physical injuries and consequential depression. ...Read More | |||
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High Court: New Presumption Law Doesn't Apply to Pending Claims | 03/28/2025 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A man with brain cancer is not able to avail himself of statutory changes intended to make it easier for firefighters to invoke a presumption that the condition arose out of employment because it wasn't in effect when he filed his claim, Arizona's Supreme Court ruled. ...Read More | |||
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House Passes Bill to Allow Nurse Practitioners to Diagnose PTSD | 03/25/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill that would allow nurse practitioners to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder. Although no...Read More | |||
