Workers' Compensation News
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Lawmakers Pass QME Template Bill | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Assembly unanimously concurred in amendments to a bill that would direct the Division of Workers' Compensation to create some medical-legal templates. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Widow's Claim for Firefighter's Cancer Death | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: NH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a widow’s claim for death benefits was timely and that an award was supported by competent evidence. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Appeal Fails Due to Lack of Challenge | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel ruled that a worker’s failure to challenge both bases given by a judge for denying her motion to set aside a settlement was fatal to her appeal. ...Read More | |||
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BWC Medical and Health Symposium Begins Wednesday | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation is hosting its annual Medical & Health Symposium from Wednesday through Friday. The free virt...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Treatment, but Not Additional TTD, Expansion of Claim | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that a worker was not entitled to additional temporary total disability benefits or to expand the scope of her claim, but she should not have been denied a cold compression therapy unit and shoulder wrap for her compensable injury. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Law Defendant Gets Partial Summary Dismissal | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a Labor Law defendant was entitled to partial summary judgment dismissing a claim against it, but it was not entitled to summary judgment on its indemnification claim against a co-defendant. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Posts 2026 Compliance and Investigations Audit Plan | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation said compliance and investigations audits in 2026 will focus on timeliness and accuracy of benefit payments, reimbursement for medical services and data reporting. ...Read More | |||
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Kristen McRee Appointed Executive Director of WCC | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission announced that Kristen McRee was appointed executive director, effective Nov. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Death Benefit Expansion, Farmworker Presumption Head to Governor | 09/15/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers voted to send Gov. Gavin Newsom bills expanding workers’ compensation coverage for farmworkers with heat injuries and dependents of fallen first responders. ...Read More | |||
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2nd DCA Publishes Decision Allowing Maintenance Worker to Sue Employer in Tort | 09/15/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appeals court last week ordered publication of its decision from earlier this month, finding that a maintenance worker injured while boarding a vessel at a yacht club can pursue tort claims against his employer. ...Read More | |||
