Workers' Compensation News
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Worker Sprayed in Face by Sandblasting Equipment Gets Summary Judgment | 05/12/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker who was sprayed in the face by sandblasting equipment should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Health Care Worker's Claim for Knee Injury | 05/12/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a health care worker’s claim for a knee injury. Case:...Read More | |||
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Worker's Challenge to Fee Award Fails | 05/12/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s failure to name his former attorney as a party was fatal to his appeal. Cas...Read More | |||
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Worker Who Fell From Scaffold Qualifies as Subcontractor's Employee | 05/12/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld a determination that a worker who fell from a scaffold was an employee of a subcontractor on a construction project as opposed to an independent contractor or special employee of the general contractor. ...Read More | |||
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Court Remands Case to Determine Date of Injury for CT Claim by '70s-Era Ballplayer | 05/09/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appeals court annulled a Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decision ordering arbitration of a coverage dispute to obtain a factual determination of the date of injury for a former New York Yankee who retired in 1978. ...Read More | |||
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Agreement Between Union, Employer Divests JCC of Jurisdiction Over Worker's Claim | 05/09/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Florida appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s claim for benefits, finding that his labor union and employer had a valid and enforceable contractual agreement divesting the Office of the Judges of Compensation Claims of jurisdiction over the matter. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Denies VSSR Award to Widow for Worker's Death by Asphyxiation | 05/09/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| A divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a widow was not entitled to an enhanced award of benefits for her husband’s death from inhaling nitrogen-saturated air. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs Bill Excluding Certain Temp Workers From Comp | 05/09/2025 | |
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| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oklahoma Gov. J. Kevin Stitt signed a bill eliminating the requirement to carry comp coverage for certain unpaid temporary workers. The gove...Read More | |||
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Max TD Benefit Increases July 1 | 05/09/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The maximum temporary total disability benefit in Oregon is increasing by 6.427% on July 1 to match the increase in the state’s average weekly wage. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Signs Bill Establishing Criteria to Mandate Lump-Sum Payments | 05/09/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed a bill that requires carriers and self-insured employers to make a lump-sum payment of a permanent partial disability award if the injured worker waives reconsideration of a notice of closure or the award has become final by operation of law. ...Read More | |||
