Workers' Compensation News
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Discount Rate Declining in First Quarter of 2026 | 12/23/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation is reducing the discount rate used to calculate the present value of future weekly payments for lump-sum settlements. ...Read More | |||
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Paralysis Fraud Case Leads to 31-Month Sentence, $537,071 Restitution Order | 12/23/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An Ohio man who claimed he was paralyzed after a workplace electric shock pleaded guilty to theft of government property and wire fraud, and he was sentenced to 31 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $537,071 in restitution, the Bureau of Workers' Compensation announced. ...Read More | |||
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Court Affirms Dismissal of LHWCA Claim | 12/23/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of a longshoreman’s claims for his injuries from a fall from a ladder leading to a ship’s cargo hold. ...Read More | |||
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Nicholas Roxborough Elected CHSWC Chairman | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation elected Nicholas Roxborough to serve as chairman in 2026. ...Read More | |||
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Jury Acquits Neurosurgeon on Conspiracy Charge | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A jury acquitted a Southern California neurosurgeon charged with conspiracy to commit workers' compensation fraud, according to a report by MyNewsLA.com and informati...Read More | |||
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Appeals Court: Cadets Covered by Immunity Waiver for Retaliation | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Texas appellate court, in a case of first impression, held that a Houston Police Academy cadet is covered by the waiver of governmental immunity that allows first responders to sue their employers for workers' compensation retaliation. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Medical Clinic's Comp Coverage Obligation | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a medical clinic was subject to the workers’ compensation law because it regularly employed more than five people and that an employee was entitled to benefits for her injuries from assisting a falling patient. ...Read More | |||
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Part of Worker's Labor Law Claim Dismissed; Some Defendants Get Indemnification | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that part of a worker’s Labor Law claim should have been dismissed and that some of the defendants were entitled to indemnification from his employer. ...Read More | |||
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Insurance Carriers Have No Duty to Indemnify Employer for Worker's Fatal Accident | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that an Ohio employer’s insurance carriers had no obligation to indemnify it for the settlement it paid to the family of a worker who was killed on the job. ...Read More | |||
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Black Lung Presumption for Underground Miners Can Apply to Surface Workers, Too | 12/22/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court ruled that the presumption under the Black Lung Benefits Act for coal miners who put in 15 or more years of underground work can also apply to an above-ground worker. ...Read More | |||
