Workers' Compensation News
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WCRI Study Analyzes Effect of Losing Medicaid Coverage | 11/04/2026 | |
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| Medicaid disenrollment was associated with higher medical payments in workers' compensation claims during the period when enrollees were losing coverage, the Workers Compensation Research Institute said in a new study. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Raise Concern About OSHA Respirator Rule Changes | 11/04/2026 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Twenty-eight congressional Democrats are protesting planned rollbacks of regulations regarding respirator masks as proposed by the Trump administration. ...Read More | |||
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Plumber's Assistant Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim for Fall Over Barrier | 11/04/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a plumber’s assistant should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his injuries from falling over a ground-level barrier into a below-ground entranceway. ...Read More | |||
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Demolition Worker Fails to Prove Compensability of Heart Attack | 11/04/2026 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the denial of a demolition worker’s claim for benefits for a heart attack. Case...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Panel's Denial of Extraordinary Benefits | 11/04/2026 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel upheld the denial of a worker’s request for extraordinary benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Defendants Should Have Been Denied Summary Dismissal of Claims | 11/04/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the defendants in a Labor Law action should not have been granted summary judgment dismissing all the claims against them. ...Read More | |||
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Court Properly Denies Worker's Claim for Further Compensation as Untimely | 11/04/2026 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s claim for further compensation was properly denied as untimely. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Court Affirms Attorney Fee Award | 11/03/2026 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed a Workers' Compensation Commission decision awarding a fee to an injured worker's attorney, finding that the employer had controverted the compensability of an employee's back injury. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Holds Employer Liable for Damages, Breach of Contract | 11/03/2026 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that an excavation contractor was liable for damages to the company that hired it and that it committed a material breach of contract by failing to maintain workers’ compensation coverage. ...Read More | |||
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WCB Rolls Out New Search Tool | 11/03/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New York State Workers' Compensation Board has developed what it says is a new, improved website search tool. ...Read More | |||
