Workers' Compensation News
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Ship Painter Gets PPD Award, Fees Under LHWCA for Respiratory Ailments | 07/10/2026 | |
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| State: IN | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court upheld an award of partial disability benefits and attorney fees to a ship painter under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act for his respiratory ailments. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Finding That Worker's Condition Deteriorated to PTD | 07/10/2026 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously upheld a determination that a worker’s condition had worsened to the point that he was entitled to permanent total disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Says Worker's Impairment Rating Shouldn't Have Been Reduced | 07/10/2026 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a worker’s impairment rating for a distal clavicle excision should not have been reduced. Case:...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Denies Worker Additional TTD, Expansion of Claim, but Allows More Treatment | 07/08/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a worker was not entitled to additional temporary total disability benefits or to expand the scope of her claim, but she should not have been denied a cold compression therapy unit and shoulder wrap for her compensable injury. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Agrees That Administrator Unreasonably Denied Claim | 07/07/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a determination that an administrator unreasonably denied a worker’s claim for injuries from a locker falling on her. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Dismisses Appeal by Statutory Employer | 07/07/2026 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A divided Louisiana appellate court dismissed an appeal by an injured worker’s statutory employer challenging a determination of no coverage owed to it by its insurance carrier. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Denies Benefits for Condition Allegedly Caused by Medication | 07/07/2026 | |
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| State: WY | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s claim for benefits for the pancreatitis he allegedly developed as a result of the medication he took to treat a compensable injury. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Claim for Worker's Knee Injury | 07/06/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s claim for a knee injury. Case: Underwood v. ACNR Resources In...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Carrier's Fraud Claim | 07/06/2026 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that the dismissal of a case due to a plaintiff’s failure to amend a petition is self-executing. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Says Forfeiture of Benefits for Fraudsters Applies Prospectively | 07/02/2026 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that a worker’s forfeiture of benefits for making a willful misrepresentation applies prospectively from the date of the misrepresentation, not retroactively to the date of injury. ...Read More | |||
