Workers' Compensation News
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Worker With Separate Leg Injuries Gets Two SLU Awards | 01/08/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to two schedule loss of use awards for separate injuries to his right leg. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Award for Back Injuries, Penalties | 01/08/2025 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits and penalties to a worker for her back injuries. Case: H.J. Heinz Co. v. Til...Read More | |||
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Widow's Claim for Fatal Heart Attack Comes Too Late | 01/08/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court ruled that a widow’s claim for benefits was untimely filed. Case: Thomas v. Bureau of In...Read More | |||
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Worker Forfeits Entitlement to Benefits by Exaggerating Symptoms | 01/07/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the forfeiture of a worker’s entitlement to benefits due to the embellishment of his condition and functional abilities at his permanency evaluation. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Ejected From Street Sweeper Gets Nothing From Driver Who Struck His Vehicle | 01/03/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Texas appellate court upheld a take-nothing judgment for a municipal worker who was ejected from a street sweeper when it was rear-ended by a truck. ...Read More | |||
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WCS Requests Electronic Submission of Denial Notices | 01/03/2025 | |
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| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nevada Workers' Compensation section requested that insurers and third-party administrators submit claim denial notices electronically. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Should Have Been Granted Approval of 3rd Party Settlement | 01/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should have been granted judicial approval of her settlement of a third-party personal injury action. ...Read More | |||
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WCS Announces 2.3% COLA for 2025 | 01/02/2025 | |
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| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Injured workers receiving permanent total disability benefits and dependents receiving survivor’s benefits should receive a 2.3% increase in their monthly benefit rate in January, the Nevada Workers’ Compensation Section announced. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Authorization for Updated MRI | 12/26/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the authorization of an updated magnetic resonance imaging scan of a worker’s lumbar spine. ...Read More | |||
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Written Premium Up, Average Charged Rate Increases | 12/24/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Written premium and average charged rates for the first nine months of 2024 were both about 1% higher than they were in the first nine months of 2023, the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau said in its third quarter 2024 experience report. ...Read More | |||
