Workers' Compensation News
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Harford Mutual Announces Merger With ClearPath | 08/22/2023 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Harford Mutual Insurance Group announced that it has received final approval from regulators in Maryland to complete a merger with monoline workers’ compensation carrier ClearPath Mutual Insurance Co. ...Read More | |||
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HR Law Announces Additions to Deerfield Beach Office | 08/08/2023 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Workers’ compensation defense firm HR Law announced the addition of two attorneys to its office in Deerfield Beach, Florida. ...Read More | |||
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Homeowners Get Summary Dismissal of Workers' Labor Law Claims | 08/04/2023 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of the Labor Law claims against the owners of a single-family residence undergoing renovation work. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Rejects 'Straightjacket' for Compensability of Mental Health Claims | 07/31/2023 | |
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| State: MI | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Michigan Supreme Court on Friday adopted a new test to determine whether a plaintiff successfully demonstrated that a workplace injury significantly contributed to her psychological problems, saying a four-factor test it created in 2001 as a guide has “morphed into a straitjacket....Read More | |||
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Husband and Wife Accused of Concealing $4.1 Million in Payroll | 07/27/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Insurance Department announced that a husband and wife from Bakersfield were charged with fraud for allegedly underreporting $4.1 million in payroll to two different carriers between 2017 and 2020. ...Read More | |||
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High Courts Define Scope of Work Comp Exclusivity | 07/17/2023 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The “grand bargain” at the heart of workers’ compensation systems has been a major topic among the states’ highest courts in recent months, with California, Iowa, Alabama and Pennsylvania all issuing decisions addressing the scope of their respective exclusive remedy ...Read More | |||
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High Court Accepts Surrender of Attorney's Law License for Misappropriating Client Funds | 07/07/2023 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Supreme Court of Georgia last week accepted an attorney’s voluntary surrender of his law license for misusing an injured worker’s settlement funds. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Finds No Duty for Employers to Prevent Spread of COVID-19 Beyond Workers | 07/06/2023 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California employers do not owe a duty of care to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to employees’ household members, the state’s high court ruled Thursday. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Finds Worker Not Entitled to Reopen Claim | 07/05/2023 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an injured loader operator was not entitled to the reopening of his claim for further permanent partial disability from a neck injury. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Upholds Award for Worker With Back Injury | 06/28/2023 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a worker was entitled to benefits for a back injury from slipping on gravel at work. ...Read More | |||
