Workers' Compensation News
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Amendment Would Limit Expansion of Heart Trouble Presumption | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill proposing to expand the presumption that heart trouble is a compensable condition was amended to specify that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation workers must be peace officers to qualify. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Reinstates Denial of Worker's Request for PTD Benefits | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Ohio Supreme Court reinstated the denial of a worker’s application for permanent total disability benefits. Randall Urban worked for Wan...Read More | |||
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Report: Computer System Upgrade Suspended for Lack of Progress | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Officials in Washington state have pulled the plug on efforts to upgrade the workers' compensation medical claims management system, citing a lack of progress over the last 10 years, ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Finding That Worker Suffered Discrete New Injury | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker had suffered a discrete, new compensable back injury. Cas...Read More | |||
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School Social Worker Gets Award for Injuries From Student Attacks | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld an award of benefits to a school social worker for his injuries from two assaults by students. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Challenge to Dismissal of Civil Suit Fails for Lack of Jurisdiction | 08/28/2025 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Virginia Court of Appeals found that it lacked jurisdiction over a worker’s challenge to the dismissal of his civil suit for injuries he sustained at a construction site. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Bill to Extend SCIF Investment Authority | 08/27/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The California Senate passed an annual omnibus bill that includes a provision that permanently extends the authority of State Compensation Insurance Fund to make certain investments. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Proposes Amendments to SIB Rules | 08/27/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation proposed amendments that it says will better align the language of its supplemental income benefit rules with statutory requirements. ...Read More | |||
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WCD Schedules Hearing on Benefit Fund Assessment | 08/27/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division is holding a hearing Sept. 18 to discuss the annual assessment that finances the Workers’ Benefit Fund. ...Read More | |||
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IWCC: Documentary Evidence Must Be in Paper Form | 08/27/2025 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission said in an email that the state's rules of evidence apply to its proceedings and that all documentary evidence must be submitted in paper form. ...Read More | |||
