Workers' Compensation News
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Lawmaker Drops PTP Provision From Naturopath Bill | 08/27/2026 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers have spiked a controversial proposal to allow naturopaths to serve as primary treating physicians in the workers' compensation system. ...Read More | |||
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Nurse Accused of Not Disclosing Outside Employment While Collecting Comp | 08/27/2026 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Connecticut prosecutors announced fraud charges against a nurse accused of failing to disclose her outside employment while she collected workers' compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Police Officer Charged With Fraud | 08/27/2026 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Connecticut police officer receiving workers' compensation benefits for a knee injury was charged with fraud after he passed a fitness exam as part of the application process for another police department. ...Read More | |||
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Doctors' Claims for Radiation Exposure Subject to TMLA | 08/27/2026 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that the claims brought by two doctors against a hospital for their on-the-job radiation exposure were healthcare liability claims subject to the requirements of the Texas Medical Liability Act. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Directs ALJ to Revisit Worker's Claim for COVID-19 Infection | 08/27/2026 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld a decision vacating an award to a worker for his contraction of COVID-19 and remanding for the administrative law judge to reexamine the worker’s communicable disease claim. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Struck by Swinging Beam Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim | 08/27/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker struck by a swinging steel beam should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim. ...Read More | |||
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No Benefits for Worker's Adverse Reaction to COVID-19 Vaccine | 08/26/2026 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld a denial of benefits for a worker’s adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine. Larry Driscol...Read More | |||
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WCD Schedules Hearing on Benefit Fund Assessment | 08/26/2026 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division will hold a virtual hearing on Sept. 17 to discuss the Workers' Benefit Fund assessment rate for 2027. ...Read More | |||
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L&I Says Nippon Dynawave Citation Unrelated to Fatal Tank Incident | 08/26/2026 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries cited Nippon Dynawave for failing to document its safety plans or keep required records relating to an ammonia tank used to treat wastewater, a violation the agency said was not related to its inspection into a fatal tank collapse in May....Read More | |||
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IWCC Arbitrator Jeffery Tobin Dies at 65 | 08/26/2026 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| Judge Jeffrey Tobin, an arbitrator with the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, died Saturday at the age of 65. Tobin practiced la...Read More | |||
