Workers' Compensation News
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Comp Bills Heading to Governor | 06/03/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Texas lawmakers voted to send the governor bills that would allow remote contested case hearings, eliminate group self-insurance coverage and govern the use of artificial intelligence in claims handling. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Misconduct Findings Against Fugitive Uwaydah's Frontline Medical | 06/02/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that multiple abuses of the discovery process and a pattern of intentionally false or misleading statements were sufficient for a Los Angeles court to grant case-terminating sanctions and dismiss a lawsuit filed by a company affiliated with fugitive Munir Uwayda...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Comp Bills | 06/02/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate passed bills that would extend how long health insurance must be provided as workers’ compensation death benefits for the children of first responders and allow the Division of Workers’ Compensation to investigate whether an uninsured employer transferred propert...Read More | |||
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Employer Can't Reopen Claim to Challenge Benefit Payments to Worker's Son | 06/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that an employer was not entitled to reopen a claim and challenge benefit payments to a deceased worker’s son. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Law Defendant Gets Partial Summary Judgment on Worker's Claims | 06/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a Labor Law defendant should have been granted summary judgment dismissing part of a worker’s claim against it for his accidental injuries. ...Read More | |||
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En Banc Court Finds Widow's FELA Claim Timely | 06/02/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The en banc Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that a railway worker’s widow timely filed a Federal Employers’ Liability Act claim in her capacity as the administrator of the worker’s estate, even though she did not seek appointment until after the statute of limitations had expi...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Summary Dismissal of Intentional Tort Claims Against Statutory Employer | 06/02/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of two workers’ intentional tort claims against their statutory employer for their burn injuries in a refinery accident. ...Read More | |||
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Doctor Must Face Malpractice Claim Due to Workers' Comp Exception | 06/02/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The family of a professional baseball player can proceed with its lawsuit against a team’s sports doctor, alleging that his malpractice led to the player's death, a Florida court ruled. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Contractor Comp Bill | 05/30/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Senate passed a bill that would require the Contractors State License Board to monitor and report on violations of work comp coverage requirements. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Denial of Pharmacy's Petition to Strike Judgment | 05/30/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania overturned the denial of a pharmacy’s petition to strike a judgment against it, explaining that the pharmacy was not and could not be a party to the billing review proceedings in which a judge found that it had been overpaid. ...Read More | |||
