Workers' Compensation News
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Bills Propose San Joaquin MPN, Ag Worker Heat Presumption | 02/25/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Bills introduced ahead of Friday's filing deadline for the 2025 legislative session include familiar proposals to create a state-run medical provider network and enact a heat injury presumption for agricultural workers. ...Read More | |||
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Task Force Says Employers Duck $58.7M in Premiums by Misclassifying Workers | 02/25/2025 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Businesses misclassifying construction workers in Maryland avoid paying an estimated $58.7 million in workers' compensation premiums annually, according to a new report by the state's Joint Enforcement Task Force on Workplace Fraud. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Death From Lung Transplant Complications Not Compensable | 02/25/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker’s death from complications stemming from a double lung transplant necessitated by his COVID-19 infection was not compensable. ...Read More | |||
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Court Partially Overturns Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claims as Premature | 02/25/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| A New York appellate court partially overturned a grant of summary judgment for a defendant in a Labor Law case as premature. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Report: SAIF CEO Reports Home Targeted by Gunfire | 02/25/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The chief executive officer of Oregon's SAIF Corp. said someone fired three bullets through his front door, according to a report by Wi...Read More | |||
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Court Denies Employer's Petition for Review of Worker's Black Lung Benefits Award | 02/25/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A federal appellate court denied an employer petition for review of an award of Black lung benefits to a longtime coal miner. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Writ of Supervisory Review, Award of Fees, Penalties | 02/25/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court granted a supervisory writ of review and determined that an injured worker should have been awarded attorney fees and penalties. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Says Defect in Worker's Brief Doesn't Warrant Denial of Appeal | 02/24/2025 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that a worker should have been granted appellate review of his denied claim despite his technical failure to comply with the rules of appellate procedure. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Can't Get Rehearing by Blaming Former Attorney for Evidence Failure | 02/24/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a self-represented worker failed to prove entitlement to reconsideration or full board review by casting blame on his former attorney for failing to provide evidence at the initial board hearing. ...Read More | |||
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House Passes Bill to Increase Attorney Fees | 02/24/2025 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| The New Mexico House of Representatives passed a bill to increase attorney fees as well as the amount of discovery costs that employers can be ordered to advance to injured workers. ...Read More | |||
