Workers' Compensation News
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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 | |||
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Joel Sacks Reappointed as Director of L&I | 12/23/2024 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| Gov.-elect Bob Ferguson announced that he is reappointing Joel Sacks as director of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries. ...Read More | |||
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Judicial Selection Committee Recommends Work Comp Appeal Court Candidates | 12/20/2024 | |
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| State: MN | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| The Minnesota Commission on Judicial Selection recommended two candidates for Gov. Tim Walz to consider for filling an upcoming vacancy on the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals. ...Read More | |||
