Workers' Compensation News
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DWC Audit Penalties Reach $1M for 2024 | 04/29/2026 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Division of Workers' Compensation issued administrative penalties totaling a little more than $1 million following 36 random and four targeted audits in 2024 that found $442,661 in unpaid compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Report: Exclusivity Thwarts Efforts to Compensate Teachers for School Shootings | 04/29/2026 | |
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| State: CO | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Lawmakers might have overlooked the fact that workers' compensation is the exclusive remedy for injuries arising from employment when they passed a law allowing teachers to sue school districts over school shootings, according to a ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Summary Judgment for Defendant; Worker Gets Summary Judgment Instead | 04/29/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| A New York appellate court vacated a grant of summary judgment for the defendant on a Labor Law claim and granted summary judgment for the worker. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Law Defendants Get Partial Summary Dismissal of Worker's Claims | 04/29/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the defendants in a Labor Law action should have been granted summary judgment dismissing part of the claims against them. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Court Denies Challenge to Worker's Black Lung Benefits Award | 04/29/2026 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court denied review of a coal mine operator’s challenge to a worker’s award of black lung benefits. Case:...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Worker's Entitlement to Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulator | 04/29/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a decision of the Board of Review finding that a worker was entitled to a neuromuscular electrical stimulator for her back injury. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Determining Responsibility for Concealed Hazard Not Suited for Summary Judgment | 04/28/2026 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Whether a subcontractor hired to line a pit with concrete was responsible for assessing the safety of the excavation work performed by the hiring party is a question of fact that precludes summary judgment, a California appeals court ruled in an unpublished decision. ...Read More | |||
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Amended Presumption Bill Would Apply Retroactively to 2021 | 04/28/2026 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Members of the Arizona House of Representatives added five years of retroactive effect to a bill intended to close a loophole that carriers have allegedly used to deny cancer claims from first responders that are presumed to arise from employment under state law. ...Read More | |||
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IWCC Announces Arbitrator Transfers | 04/28/2026 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission announced a pair of arbitrator transfers taking effect May 1. Arbitrators Linda Cantrell an...Read More | |||
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Worker's Settlement With Employer Bars Her Second-Injury Fund Claim | 04/28/2026 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a worker could not continue to pursue a claim against the state Second Injury Fund after entering a compromise settlement with her employer that did not establish the employer’s liability for her injury. ...Read More | |||
