Workers' Compensation News
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Self-Represented Worker Can Reopen Settled Claim, Receive Additional Benefits | 05/06/2020 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a self-represented radio station employee was entitled to reopen her claim and request benefits for a knee injury from a car accident more than 20 years after she settled with her employer. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Benefits to Worker With History of Back, Neck Issues | 05/06/2020 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld the denial of benefits to an automobile manufacturing worker with a long history of back and neck issues predating her two alleged work injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Denies Death Benefits to Worker's Biological Children | 05/05/2020 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that a worker’s two biological children were not entitled to death benefits to satisfy his past-due obligation for child support. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Overturns Denial of Benefits | 05/05/2020 | |
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| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The South Carolina Supreme Court issued a decision concluding that the state workers' compensation commissioner erred in denying benefits to the worker because of a lack of credibility. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Rejects Intoxication Defense | 05/05/2020 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A unanimous Kentucky Supreme Court rejected an employer’s voluntary intoxication defense to a claim by a worker who tested positive for cocaine following his fall from a ladder. ...Read More | |||
| Supreme Court Says Worker Can't Bring CT Claim Based on Aggravation of Prior Compensable Injury | 05/04/2020 | ||
| Source: Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter) | |||
| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a worker who receives disability benefits for a traumatic injury cannot later recover disability benefits on a separate cumulative injury claim if the cumulative injury is based solely on aggravation of the earlier traumatic injury. ...Read More | |||
| Senate Approves Presumption Bill, Giving Commission Power to Decide Who's Covered | 04/29/2020 | ||
| State: VT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Vermont Senate on Monday quickly passed a bill that gives regulators wide latitude on deciding which workers will be presumed eligible for workers' compensation benefits if they contract the COVID-19 respiratory disease. ...Read More | |||
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Settlement Doesn't Bar LHWCA Claims by Widows | 04/28/2020 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided federal appellate court revived the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act claims filed by two widows, finding the terms did not bar the claims. ...Read More | |||
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Study: Reduced Access to Care, Layoffs May Alter Claim Duration and Frequency | 04/23/2020 | |
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| By: Mark Powell (Reporter) | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Reduced access to medical care and workers anticipating layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic could increase the duration of workers’ compensation claims and have a significant impact on frequency, according to a study by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Refuses Interlocutory Appeal of New Trial Order | 04/22/2020 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Delaware Supreme Court ruled that the plaintiff in a bad faith action against an insurance carrier could not use a stricken pleading as an exhibit in an interlocutory appeal. ...Read More | |||
