Workers' Compensation News
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WCD Forming Committee to Draft Security Deposit Exemption Rules | 07/10/2025 | |
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State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division is forming a rulemaking committee to draft regulations to implement legislation allowing self-insured school districts to request an exemption to the requirement to post security deposits. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Finding That Teacher Withdrew From Job Market | 07/10/2025 | |
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
A New York appellate court upheld a determination that a teacher had voluntarily withdrawn from the labor market. Case: Matter of ...Read More | |||
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Employer Gets Summary Judgment Dismissing Tort Claim for Worker's Death | 07/10/2025 | |
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State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that an employer should have been granted summary judgment dismissing a civil suit that asserted the company engaged in intentional misconduct that was substantially certain to result in the death of a worker. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Not Entitled to Include Wrist Injury in Claim | 07/10/2025 | |
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State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s request to expand the scope of her claim for a left wrist injury. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Approves Direct Deposit, Funding Increase for Safety Inspections | 07/10/2025 | |
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State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer signed a bill allowing benefit payments to be made by direct deposit and increasing funding for the safety and inspection functions of the Division of Industrial Affairs. ...Read More | |||
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CWCI: Data Doesn't Support Presumption for Hospital Workers | 07/09/2025 | |
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State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
Injuries that would be presumed compensable for hospital workers under a bill pending in the Assembly occur at similar rates — and are denied at similar rates — as those for the general workforce, according to a new report by the California Workers' Compensation Institute. ...Read More | |||
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WCD Forming Rulemaking Advisory Committee | 07/09/2025 | |
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State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division announced that it is forming a rulemaking advisory committee to review issues relating to claims administration and recently enacted legislation. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Appoints Commissioner, Arbitrators | 07/09/2025 | |
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State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the appointment of a workers' compensation commissioner and nine arbitrators. The governor appointe...Read More | |||
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Trial Court Has Jurisdiction to Enforce Judgment Against State Insurance Fund | 07/09/2025 | |
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State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
A New York appellate court ruled that the Supreme Court had jurisdiction over a motion to enforce a money judgment against State Insurance Fund. ...Read More | |||
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Emergency Room Nurse's Claim for COVID-19 Infection Denied | 07/09/2025 | |
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State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
An Ohio appellate court upheld a judge’s order striking the affidavit by a nurse’s medical expert on causation as well as summary judgment dismissing her claim that she had contracted COVID-19 at work. ...Read More | |||
