Workers' Compensation News
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SAIF Declares $50M Dividend | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The board of directors for Oregon work comp carrier SAIF Corp. declared a $50 million dividend. The carrier said more than 50,000 p...Read More | |||
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Defendants in Civil Suit Over Worker's Electrocution Get Partial Summary Judgment | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Delaware Superior Court ruled that the defendants in a civil suit over a worker’s electrocution were entitled to partial summary judgment dismissing the claims against them and that the employer was entitled to summary judgment dismissing a third-party complaint against it. ...Read More | |||
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Jury's Finding of Permanent Disability Not Grossly Excessive | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Maryland Appellate Court upheld a jury’s determination that a firefighter suffered a 63% permanent partial disability from a back injury. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Mileage Reimbursements Properly Excluded From AWW Calculation | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s average weekly wage was properly calculated as excluding the mileage reimbursements she received from her employer. ...Read More | |||
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Claims Administrator Unreasonably Denies Reinstatement of Worker's TTD | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that a claims administrator unreasonably denied reinstatement of a worker’s temporary total disability benefits for failure to attend a medical evaluation. ...Read More | |||
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Statute of Limitations for SIBTF Claims Included Among Late-Session Bill Amendments | 09/03/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers amended a handful of workers' compensation bills covering second injury fund claims and presumptions for agricultural workers as the Legislature heads into the final two weeks of the 2025 session. ...Read More | |||
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Gideon Baum Succeeds Alex Swedlow as CWCI President | 09/03/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gideon Baum succeeded Alex Swedlow to become the fifth president of the California Workers' Compensation Institute, effective Monday. ...Read More | |||
| CompSource Pitches Conversion to Stock Carrier | 09/03/2025 | ||
| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| After about a decade of operating as a private mutual carrier, Oklahoma's CompSource Mutual Insurance Co. is proposing to convert to a stock carrier. The board of directors for CompSource in April approved a reorganization plan that includes forming a mutual insurance holding company ...Read More | |||
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NCCI Recommends 6.9% Rate Cut | 09/03/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The National Council on Compensation Insurance is recommending that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation reduce workers' compensation rates by an average of 6.9%, effective Jan. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Board Fails to Properly Analyze Worker's Claim for Additional Treatment, Pain Management | 09/03/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that the Board of Review failed to properly analyze a worker’s claim for additional treatment and pain management. ...Read More | |||
