Workers' Compensation News
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New Hearing Ordered on Worker's Application for Disability Retirement Benefits | 11/04/2025 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division ordered a new hearing on a worker’s application for disability retirement benefits, since the judge who rendered the decision upholding the denial of her application had not seen the testimony of the experts giving conflicting opinion...Read More | |||
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Injured Worker Not Entitled to Reopen Claim for TTD | 11/04/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a decision denying a worker’s request to reopen his claim for temporary total disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Can Expand Description of Injury, Gets Continuation of Benefits | 11/04/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld an expansion of a worker's description of her work injury and the continuation of her benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds 33% PPD Award for Assembly Line Worker | 11/04/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a worker’s permanent partial disability award of 33%. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim for Unwitnessed Fall | 11/04/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to summary judgment on her Labor Law claim for an unwitnessed fall from a ladder. ...Read More | |||
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Costco Among Companies Cited for Alleged Misclassification | 11/03/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Labor Commissioner's Office cited Costco Wholesale Corp. and two trucking firms a combined $868,128 for allegedly misclassifying 58 delivery drivers as contractors. ...Read More | |||
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Bills Propose ABC Test, Benefit Increase, Mandatory Mediation and New Penalties | 11/03/2025 | |
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| State: MI | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Michigan lawmakers introduced a package of bills proposing to increase workers' compensation benefits, mandate mediation in certain circumstances, modify presumptions, create new penalties and increase those on the books. ...Read More | |||
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Roofer Ordered to Pay $24,200 for Premium Fraud | 11/03/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation announced that the owner of a roofing company was ordered to pay $24,200 following his conviction for falsifying his application for coverage. ...Read More | |||
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Editorial: Injured Workers Have Less Medical Privacy Than Prisoners | 11/03/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A law professor at Emory University said in an opinion article published by The Hill that injured workers typically have less privacy than prisoners when it comes to their medical rec...Read More | |||
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Federal Court Upholds Dismissal of Deputy Sheriff's Disability Discrimination Claim | 11/03/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of an injured deputy sheriff’s claim of disability discrimination. Case...Read More | |||
