Workers' Compensation News
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No Benefits for Transit Worker Assaulted by Subway Passenger | 05/07/2019 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a transit worker heading home was not entitled to benefits for his injuries from an assault by a subway passenger. ...Read More | |||
| Normandy Insurance Enters New State | 05/03/2019 | ||
| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Workers' compensation carrier Normandy Insurance Co. has expanded into Mississippi, the fifth state the company has added this year. Normandy now offers workers’ compensation insurance in nine states: Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and ...Read More | |||
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No Benefits for Nerve Conditions After Crush Injury | 05/03/2019 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A unanimous West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of benefits to a worker for neuralgia and neuritis following a crush injury to his right foot. ...Read More | |||
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No Summary Judgment on Claim by Ironworker | 05/01/2019 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an ironworker was not entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim based on a traumatic brain injury from being struck by a falling pole. ...Read More | |||
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No Summary Judgment Against Member of LLC | 04/30/2019 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment to an injured construction worker on his Labor Law claim against a member of a limited liability company that owned the property where he was hurt. ...Read More | |||
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No Benefits for Police Officer Injured by Slipping on Grass | 04/29/2019 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that a police officer was not entitled to benefits for her injuries from slipping on wet grass while seeking shelter from a storm. ...Read More | |||
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Now It's a Senate Bill: Deadlines Force Cancer Bill to Be Born Again | 04/29/2019 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| It started life as a Senate bill. Then it became a hefty House bill, listing almost all cancers known to man. Now, with time running out ...Read More | |||
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New Bill Would Put Asbestos Claims Back in Workers' Comp | 04/26/2019 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Pennsylvania employer interests are trying again this year to put long-tail occupational disease claims back in the workers' compensation arena. ...Read More | |||
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No Benefits for Latest Injury in Series of Work Accidents | 04/26/2019 | |
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| State: UT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Utah Court of Appeals ruled that an injured worker failed to prove he had suffered a compensable injury from the fourth in a series of work accidents. ...Read More | |||
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No Summary Judgment on Claim by Worker Struck in Eye by Nail | 04/23/2019 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a property owner was not entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s Labor Law claim based on an eye injury. ...Read More | |||
