Workers' Compensation News
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Legislature Passes Bill Allowing Administrator to Receive Benefit Payments | 04/03/2025 | |
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| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Montana lawmakers unanimously passed a bill that would authorize a benefits administrator to receive payments on behalf of a minor or an incompetent person. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Court Says Jury Must Decide Whether Termination Was Retaliatory | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal court in Florida ruled that a jury must decide whether a trucking company terminated a driver in retaliation for seeking accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act or for filing a workers' compensation claim. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Payment of Wages to Cop With COVID Wasn't in Lieu of Benefits | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a city’s payment of wage continuation benefits to a police officer after she contracted COVID-19 was not an acceptance of liability for her illness as compensable. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim for Fall From Concrete Form | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his fall from a concrete form. Cas...Read More | |||
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Group Self-Insurance Trust's Claim for Payment of Assessment Revived | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a finding that a group self-insurance trust’s claim for payment from a former member was time-barred. ...Read More | |||
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Construction Company Will Pay $191,750 for Misclassification | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: DC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Virginia-based masonry construction company will pay $191,750 for misclassifying nearly 60 members of its workforce as independent contractors and denying them benefits required by District of Columbia law. ...Read More | |||
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TDI Accepting Comments on Proposed Classification Changes | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Texas Department of Insurance is accepting comments through May on proposed changes to classifications for hazardous material removal. The Natio...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Authorization for Surgery to Address Toe Injury | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld surgery authorization for a worker with a toe injury from an on-the-job fall. ...Read More | |||
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Commissioner Approves 8.67% Reduction in Loss Costs | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Humphreys approved an 8.67% average reduction in workers' compensation loss costs for policies incepting on or after April 1. ...Read More | |||
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Mitch Steiger Reappointed to CHSWC | 04/01/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Mitch Steiger was reappointed to the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation for a term that runs through December 2028. ...Read More | |||
