Workers' Compensation News
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Split Supreme Court Cites Triable Issues in Worker's Tort Suit | 02/23/2026 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a determination that triable issues precluded summary judgment on a worker’s tort suit for his injuries from a skid loader accident against the owner of the machine, who was also a co-employee. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Heart-Lung Presumption Bill | 02/23/2026 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Florida Senate unanimously passed a bill that would allow first responders to use a preemployment physical examination from a former employer to invoke the presumption that certain heart and lung diseases arose from employment. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Effectively Codify High Court Decision in Kocanowski | 02/23/2026 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| New Jersey lawmakers have introduced legislation that would effectively codify a state Supreme Court decision holding that volunteer firefighters injured in the line of duty are entitled to the maximum temporary disability benefit, regardless of whether they had outside employment at the time of ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Require Heat Protections for Workers | 02/23/2026 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Legislation introduced in Colorado would require the Department of Labor and Employment to collect data and develop model guidance for preventing heat-related injuries and illnesses. ...Read More | |||
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Bills Propose Expanding PTSD Coverage, System Study | 02/23/2026 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| Connecticut lawmakers introduced bills that would expand conditions triggering workers' compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder and require a study of the state's system. ...Read More | |||
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Benefit Increase, Revised Process for Failed RTW Proposed | 02/23/2026 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| Legislation introduced in Georgia would increase temporary disability and death benefits and revise the process for reinstating benefits when an effort to return an injured worker to employment fails. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Provide Objective Findings of Injury to Support Claim | 02/23/2026 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld the denial of benefits to a worker who failed to present evidence of a compensable injury supported by objective findings after a workplace fall. ...Read More | |||
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Denial of Benefits for Nurse's Parking Lot Fall Overturned | 02/23/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals overturned a denial of benefits for a nurse injured in a fall in her employer’s parking lot as she was returning from her lunch break. ...Read More | |||
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Court Dismisses Claim by Worker Who Was Retrieving Personal Belongings | 02/23/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of a Labor Law action by an individual who fell from a pallet rack while retrieving personal belongings from a warehouse leased by his brother-in-law’s company. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Employer Didn't Rebut Heart-Lung Presumption | 02/20/2026 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A judge of compensation claims erred in finding that an employer rebutted a presumptive claim because the Citrus County Sheriff's Office and Florida Sheriff's Risk Management Fund failed to carry their burden of establishing that the causes of a sergeant's heart condition were exclusi...Read More | |||
