Workers' Compensation News
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Split Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Diabetic Worker's Carpal Tunnel Claim | 05/15/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a diabetic worker’s claim for benefits for his carpal tunnel syndrome. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Carrier's Fine for Failure to Pay Death Benefits | 05/15/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a $2,000 fine against an insurance company for its failure to timely pay death benefits to a worker’s dependents. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Decision Vacating Award of Multiplier | 05/15/2026 | |
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| The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld a decision vacating an administrative law judge’s award of a statutory three-multiplier to a worker for her cumulative trauma injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Attorney Becomes Indispensable Party to Appeal if Worker Challenges Fee Award | 05/15/2026 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that if a worker is challenging a fee award to his attorney, the attorney is a necessary party to an appeal of the award, but the failure to name the attorney as a party is not a fatal jurisdictional defect. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Partial Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim for Grinder Mishap | 05/15/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to only partial summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his injuries from using a grinder that lacked a safety guard. ...Read More | |||
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Court Finds Worker Didn't Lie About Consuming Alcohol Before Motor Vehicle Accident | 05/15/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker did not commit fraud during his testimony related to when he last consumed alcohol before he was involved in a motor vehicle accident. ...Read More | |||
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Carrier Liable for Worker's Occupational Disease, Plus Penalty | 05/14/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a determination of compensability for a longtime mason’s occupational disease from repetitive trauma, as well as the assessment of a penalty against his employer’s insurance carrier. ...Read More | |||
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Court Issues 3rd Decision Denying Sing Sing Employee's Motion to Preclude IME Report | 05/14/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| In a third case filed by employees of the same correctional facility, a New York appellate court ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Board did not err in denying a worker’s request to preclude the report of an independent medical examiner. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Court Says Wrong Mine Operator Designated as Liable for Black Lung Benefits | 05/14/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that an administrative law judge and the Benefits Review Board designated the wrong mine operator as liable for a West Virginia miner’s black lung benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Finding of Compensability for Worker's Asthma | 05/14/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a finding that a worker sustained the occupational disease of asthma in the course of and resulting from employment in the mining industry. ...Read More | |||
