Workers' Compensation News
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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 | |||
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High Court Clarifies Process for Worker-Requested Exam | 09/29/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| Injured workers are entitled to request their own exam if a carrier relies on results of its independent evaluation to contest the claim at any time, Oregon's Supreme Court ruled. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Affirms Enhanced Award for Safety Violation | 09/25/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's ruling that a worker injured as a result of a violation of a specific safety requirement was entitled to enhanced benefits. ...Read More | |||
