Workers' Compensation News
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Request to Reopen Claim | 04/26/2022 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s request to reopen his claim for additional permanent partial disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Lumber Worker's Alleged Injury From Unwitnessed Accident | 04/25/2022 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a denial of benefits to a lumber worker for an alleged injury from an unwitnessed accident, given the conflicts between his account and the testimony of witnesses and his medical records. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Award of TTD, Physical Therapy for Injured Coal Miner | 04/22/2022 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously upheld an award of temporary total disability benefits and physical therapy for a coal miner injured in a head-on bus accident. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal of See's Candies Negligence Claim | 04/21/2022 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Supreme Court denied a request to review an appellate court decision holding that the derivative injury doctrine doesn’t preclude a lawsuit alleging a business negligently exposed a worker to COVID-19 that resulted in the death of a family member. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Overturns Summary Judgment for Painter Who Fell on Plastic Sheeting | 04/21/2022 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided New York appellate court ruled that a painter was not entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his injuries after he slipped and fell on plastic sheeting that had been placed in his work area to protect an escalator from paint splatter. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Says Terms of Worker's Release Bar Discrimination Claim | 04/19/2022 | |
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| State: RI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled that the terms of a release that a retail worker signed to resolve his workers’ compensation claim prevented him from asserting a discrimination claim against his former employer. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Overturns Summary Judgment on Statutory Employer Defense | 04/18/2022 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A narrowly divided Superior Court of Pennsylvania overturned a grant of summary judgment to two corporate entities who asserted a statutory employer defense to an injured worker’s tort claim. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Benefits to Worker for Hearing Loss | 04/15/2022 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a denial of benefits to a worker for his hearing loss, since he did not submit any valid audiometric testing. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Denies Interlocutory Review of Rejected Defense | 04/15/2022 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court denied interlocutory review of an employer’s appeal of an order rejecting its argument that its workers' compensation immunity can protect it from a circuit court lawsuit facially alleging an intentional tort. ...Read More | |||
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Spinal Cord Stimulator Rules Up for Review | 04/12/2022 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced rules that would allow payment for spinal cord stimulators, pending a “common-sense” review. ...Read More | |||
