Workers' Compensation News
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CWCI: Return on Net Worth Jumped in 2023 | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Recently reported data shows comp carriers in the Golden State saw their return on net worth climb to 14.5% in 2023 from 10.6% in 2022, according to a new bulletin by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Denial of Disability Pension for Firefighter | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court overturned a denial of a duty-disability pension to an injured firefighter, finding the denial went against the manifest weight of the evidence. ...Read More | |||
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Lump-Sum Bill Heading to Governor's Desk | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| A bill that would clarify requirements for work comp carriers and self-insured employers to make lump-sum payments of permanent partial disability benefits is heading to the desk of Oregon’s governor. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Pass Bill to Bar Bad Actors From Assigned Risk Plan | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Arizona lawmakers voted to send the governor a bill that would exclude certain employers from placement in the state’s assigned risk plan. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Accepts Comments on SIB, Arbitration Rules | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is accepting comments on draft amendments to rules governing arbitration and supplemental income benefits. ...Read More | |||
| Maximum, Minimum Compensation Rates Increasing July 1 | 04/30/2025 | ||
| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that maximum and minimum compensation rates will increase, effective July 1. The maximum compensation rate will be $1,463.10, up from the 2024 rate of $1,410. The minimum compensation rate will be $365.78, up from $352....Read More | |||
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Safety Regulator Seeks Criminal Prosecution After Teen Worker Loses Legs | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Washington's State Department of Labor and Industries is encouraging a county prosecutor to press charges against an employer for allegedly breaking youth labor laws, leading to an accident that cost a teen worker his legs. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Permission to Amend Complaint; Defendant Not Entitled to Dismissal | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a trial justice’s grant of a worker’s request to amend his complaint to change the date of his alleged accident by one day, and it upheld the denial of the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Lung Transplant Referral, Medical Equipment | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of authorization for a lung transplant referral and medical equipment for a worker with a pulmonary disability. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Not Entitled to Additional TTD, Attorney Fees | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld a finding that an injured worker was not entitled to additional temporary total disability benefits or attorney fees. ...Read More | |||
