Workers' Compensation News
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Jury Convicts Labor Organization, Owners of Fraud | 06/24/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal jury convicted a labor organization and its owners of fraud for falsely representing that national insurers backed the work comp coverage it provided in California and other jurisdictions. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Whiffs in Calculating Pro Baseball Player's Average Weekly Wage | 06/14/2024 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that a judge of compensation claims erroneously calculated a minor league baseball player’s average weekly wage. ...Read More | |||
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JCC Errs in Failing to Find Worker's Claim for Additional Benefits Untimely | 05/24/2024 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court ruled that a judge erred in failing to find that a worker’s claim for additional benefits was time-barred. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Must Determine Whether to Penalize Employer's Refusal to Pay for Pot | 05/21/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Pennsylvania appellate court on Monday ordered a workers’ compensation judge to determine whether an employer should be penalized for failing to reimburse an injured worker for medical cannabis. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Errs in Consolidating Worker's Civil Suit With Putative Employer's Appeal | 04/30/2024 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that a trial judge erred in consolidating a worker’s civil suit with his putative employer’s challenge to an administrative finding that the worker was not its employee. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Did Not Err in Declining to Issue Jury Interrogatories Proposed by Employer | 04/17/2024 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld a jury’s determination that a worker was entitled to expand the scope of his workers’ compensation claim, finding no error in the trial judge’s decision not to issue the interrogatories proposed by the employer. ...Read More | |||
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Judge to Revisit Fee Award Prompted by Employer's Partially Unreasonable Contest of Claim | 04/11/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania overturned an award of attorney fees to an injured worker and ordered a judge to reconsider what the employer should pay, given that its challenge to the claim was unreasonable for a limited period. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Fails to Make Adequate Findings That Support Denial of Employer's Motion | 01/10/2024 | |
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| State: AL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals ruled that a trial judge failed to make adequate findings to support a denial of an employer’s request to be relieved from liability. ...Read More | |||
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Jury's Finding of Retaliatory Termination, Award of Lost Wages Upheld on Appeal | 12/13/2023 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court upheld a jury’s finding that a worker had been terminated in retaliation for filing a workers’ compensation claim, and it upheld the award of lost wages. ...Read More | |||
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Judge Allows Worker's Civil Complaint Over Walmart Shooting | 11/22/2023 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| For the second time in a month, a Virginia circuit court judge allowed a worker to move forward with a multimillion-dollar civil suit against an employer based on claims arising from a workplace shooting. ...Read More | |||
