Workers' Compensation News
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High Court to Hear Dispute Over Benefit Forfeiture for Refusal of Medical Services | 07/25/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal involving conditions under which an injured worker forfeits all rights to compensation by refusing reasonable medical services. ...Read More | |||
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Summary Dismissal Appropriate for Worker's Tort Claims Against Employer, General Contractor | 07/25/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An Ohio appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of a worker’s civil actions against his employer, the general contractor of a project and a subcontractor for injuries he sustained while working. ...Read More | |||
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Compensability of Worker's Injury Upheld; Case Remanded for Correction of Record | 07/25/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld a determination that a worker had suffered a compensable injury to his foot, but ruled that the case had to be remanded for the record to be corrected. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Board Should Have Granted Hardship Application for Worker With Meager Income | 07/25/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned the Workers’ Compensation Board’s denial of an extreme hardship application by a worker scraping by on $1,280 per month. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Finding That Worker Has No Permanent Impairment From Shoulder Injury | 07/25/2025 | |
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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 no permanent impairment from a shoulder injury. Case...Read More | |||
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ICA Posts New Form for Notice of Claim Status | 07/25/2025 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Industrial Commission of Arizona announced that carriers, third-party administrators and self-insured employers have 90 days to transition to using a new claim status notice form. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Warrantless Search Condition for Premium Fraud Conviction | 07/24/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appeals court found no problem with an order requiring a business owner convicted of cheating a work comp carrier and state tax collectors to submit to warrantless searches as a term of probation. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Court Upholds Award of Black Lung Benefits to Miner's Widow | 07/24/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| A federal appellate court denied an employer’s petition for review of an award of Black Lung Act benefits to a coal miner’s widow. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Claim Fails Due to Lack of Causal Link Between Employment, Complaints | 07/24/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the denial of a worker’s claim due to her failure to link her ongoing complaints to her employment. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Nurse's Claim for Repetitive Use Injury | 07/24/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court revived a nurse’s claim for repetitive use injuries, finding that the Workers’ Compensation Board used the wrong standard for denying the claim. ...Read More | |||
