Workers' Compensation News
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WCRI Webinar to Cover CompScope Findings | 09/08/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers Compensation Research Institute is holding a free webinar Sept. 25 to cover its CompScope Benchmarks for Florida report and other recent research. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Excluded From LHWCA Properly Asserts Negligence Claims | 09/05/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appeals court ruled that a maintenance worker injured while boarding a vessel at a yacht club can pursue tort claims against his employer. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Mileage Reimbursements Properly Excluded From AWW Calculation | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s average weekly wage was properly calculated as excluding the mileage reimbursements she received from her employer. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Who Fell From Scaffold Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim | 09/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a construction worker should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his injuries from a fall from a scaffold. ...Read More | |||
| WDCA Announces Temporary Relocation of Okemos Hearings Office | 08/29/2025 | ||
| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Michigan Workers' Disability Compensation Agency said its Okemos hearings office is being temporarily relocated to Lansing on Monday. The agency said the office on Woodlake Circle requires significant repairs and that the Okemos hearings office will be located in the Ottawa Buildi...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Prove Entitlement to PPD for Shoulder Injury | 08/29/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker was not entitled to a permanent partial disability award for a shoulder injury. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Who Fell While Walking Dog Gets 13% PPD Award | 08/29/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a 13% permanent partial disability award for a school employee for his injuries from a fall while walking a dog. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Challenge to Dismissal of Civil Suit Fails for Lack of Jurisdiction | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Virginia Court of Appeals found that it lacked jurisdiction over a worker’s challenge to the dismissal of his civil suit for injuries he sustained at a construction site. ...Read More | |||
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WCD Schedules Hearing on Benefit Fund Assessment | 08/27/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division is holding a hearing Sept. 18 to discuss the annual assessment that finances the Workers’ Benefit Fund. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Timely Asserts Claims Against Alleged Statutory Employers | 08/27/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a worker timely asserted a claim against his alleged statutory employers and that his employer’s insurance carrier should not have been dismissed as a party to the claim. ...Read More | |||
