Workers' Compensation News
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Judge Can Hold UEGF Secondarily Liable for Claim Pending Worker's Presentation of Evidence | 09/15/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that an injured worker does not need to submit evidence that he is not entitled to workers’ compensation in the employer's state for an order holding the Uninsured Employers Guaranty Fund secondarily liable for benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Doesn't Prove Compensable Knee Injury | 09/11/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a judge did not suffer a compensable knee injury while descending a flight of stairs. ...Read More | |||
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Judge's Finding of COVID Compensability Overturned | 09/05/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned a judge’s determination that a lineman’s COVID-19 infection was work-related due to an erroneous factual finding. ...Read More | |||
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Jury's Finding of Permanent Disability Not Grossly Excessive | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Maryland Appellate Court upheld a jury’s determination that a firefighter suffered a 63% permanent partial disability from a back injury. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Upholds Finding of Total Disability, Partially Reverses Compensability Determinations | 08/29/2025 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Delaware Superior Court upheld a finding that a worker was totally disabled by multiple injuries, but it overturned some of the Industrial Accident Board’s findings of compensability as to individual injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Can't Vacate Jury's AOE/COE Determination in Negligence Case | 08/25/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A jury's finding that employees of a Mazda dealership were not acting in the course and scope of their employment when one seriously injured the other in a car accident is supported by the evidence and can't be vacated by a judge, a Texas appeals court ruled. ...Read More | |||
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JCC Misspeaks but Properly Grants Summary Adjudication of Claim | 08/15/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court said that even though a judge made misstatements in his decision granting a motion for summary adjudication, the judge performed the proper standard of review and did not err in granting the motion. ...Read More | |||
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Jennifer Osborn Appointed as DIR Director | 07/18/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Jennifer Osborn as the new director of the Department of Industrial Relations. ...Read More | |||
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Jury Charges Postal Carrier With Double-Dipping | 06/09/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal grand jury in Kentucky indicted a former postal carrier for allegedly double-dipping and receiving workers’ compensation benefits while also working for a family rental business. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Errs in Excluding Doctor's Affidavit From Evidence | 03/06/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court ruled that a judge erred in excluding a doctor’s affidavit from evidence and then granting summary judgment dismissing a worker’s claim for additional benefits. ...Read More | |||
