Workers' Compensation News
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P&T Committee Meets April 16 | 04/07/2025 | |
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| The California Division of Workers' Compensation's Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee is scheduled to meet April 16. Members of th...Read More | |||
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Provider's Report Is Adequate Notice to Constitute Timely Claim | 04/04/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Board received sufficient notice to meet the threshold for the filing of a timely claim via a report from a medical professional who had treated an injured worker. ...Read More | |||
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Property Owners Get Summary Dismissal of Worker's Labor Law, Negligence Claims | 03/26/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the owners of a property were entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s Labor Law and negligence claims against them. ...Read More | |||
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Pandemic Liability Protection Act Bars Widow's Claim Against Husband's Employer | 03/17/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Texas appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of a widow’s claim against her late husband’s employer for his death from COVID-19 as barred by state law. ...Read More | |||
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Police Officer Timely Files Claim for PTSD Years After Triggering Event | 03/13/2025 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a police officer timely filed his claim for post-traumatic stress disorder almost a decade after the event that triggered his condition. ...Read More | |||
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Payment of Cop's Salary Doesn't Constitute Acceptance of Liability for COVID-19 Infection | 03/13/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld a determination that a police officer’s receipt of his full salary for a period after contracting COVID-19 was not an acknowledgment of compensability for his condition. ...Read More | |||
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Pinnacol Board Chair Says Change Needed to Help Struggling Carrier | 03/12/2025 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The chairwoman of the board of directors for Colorado's Pinnacol Assurance penned an op-ed for the Denver Post saying changes are needed for the quasi-public insurer to...Read More | |||
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Pharmacist to Serve 17 Years, Forfeit $405M for Compound Drug Scheme | 03/12/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Texas pharmacist was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for his role in a compound drug scheme targeting injured federal workers. ...Read More | |||
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Payment of Cop's Salary Not Acceptance of Liability for COVID-19 Infection | 03/05/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a city’s payment of a police officer’s salary while he was on excused time due to a COVID-19 infection was not an acceptance of liability for a work-related illness. ...Read More | |||
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Plaintiff Can't Amend Lawsuit Against Contractors to Allege Comp Violations | 02/14/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate affirmed a determination that a plaintiff could not amend his complaint against contractors for unfinished work to add allegations that they were uninsured and unlicensed. ...Read More | |||
