Workers' Compensation News
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Court Orders Board to Recalculate Fees Owed to Worker's Attorneys | 03/26/2025 | |
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| State: HI | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Hawaii’s Intermediate Court of Appeals overturned an award of fees to the attorneys for an injured hotel worker, finding that the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations erred in denying payment for some services provided. ...Read More | |||
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Board Lacks Jurisdiction to Review Subrogation Agreement | 03/26/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that the state Workers’ Compensation Board lacked jurisdiction to review a subrogation agreement among an employer, its carrier and two third-party alleged tortfeasors. ...Read More | |||
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Property Owners Get Summary Dismissal of Worker's Labor Law, Negligence Claims | 03/26/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the owners of a property were entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s Labor Law and negligence claims against them. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Prove Discrete New Injury to Shoulder | 03/26/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a denial of benefits for a worker’s alleged shoulder injury, finding he failed to prove a new injury as opposed to an aggravation of a prior injury. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Waits Too Long to Request Modification of TTD Award | 03/25/2025 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Maryland Appellate Court ruled that a worker waited too long to apply for a modification of his temporary total disability award and that his employer’s erroneous notice of benefits termination did not give him more time. ...Read More | |||
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Governor Approves Attorney Fee Increase | 03/25/2025 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Attorneys representing injured workers in New Mexico are in for a raise in June after the governor signed a bill to increase fees by more than 33%. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Additional PPD for Worker's Occupational Pneumoconiosis | 03/25/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a determination that a worker was not entitled to additional permanent partial disability benefits for his occupational pneumoconiosis. ...Read More | |||
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WCD Updates Hospital Reimbursement Ratios | 03/25/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division updated the cost-to-charge ratios used to calculate reimbursement owed to hospitals for treating injured workers on or after April 1. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Death Benefits for Firefighter's Widow | 03/25/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld an award of death benefits to the widow of a cancer-stricken firefighter. Case: Ci...Read More | |||
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Worker Struck By Falling Plexiglass Panels Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim | 03/25/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to partial summary judgment on his Labor Law claims from being struck by falling plexiglass panels. ...Read More | |||
