Workers' Compensation News
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WCC Activates Web-Based Data Entry App for DRG Reports | 08/09/2024 | |
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| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court activated its web-based data entry application for diagnostic related group reports. T...Read More | |||
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Missed Deadlines, Lack of Discovery Wreck Worker's Request for Hearing | 08/09/2024 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s request for hearing was properly dismissed, given her failure to adhere to deadlines and failure to participate in discovery and a prehearing conference. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Should Have Been Granted Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim | 08/09/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for falling from a scaffold. ...Read More | |||
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Board Errs in Finding Worker Not Entitled to More Benefits for Second Amputation | 08/09/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Board of Review erred in finding that a worker who lost part of his leg was not entitled to any additional permanent partial disability after another portion of his leg was amputated. ...Read More | |||
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WCAB Imposes Additional $25,000 in Sanctions on Lawyer, Rep Who Abused Recon Process | 08/08/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board on Wednesday issued two en banc decisions imposing $25,000 in sanctions on a Southern California attorney and a hearing rep who filed reconsideration petitions to delay cases after a judge denied a request for a continuance. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Finding That Truck Driver Was Ag Worker Not Covered by Comp | 08/08/2024 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Delaware Superior Court said the Industrial Accident Board did not err when it held that a truck driver was a farmworker and therefore not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he sustained in an occupational motor vehicle accident. ...Read More | |||
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Roofing Material Supplier Fined $92,226 for Fall Hazards | 08/08/2024 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division fined a building materials supplier $92,226 for repeatedly failing to protect workers from potential fall hazards that it said could seriously injure or kill them. ...Read More | |||
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Appeals Court Reverses Order Precluding Worker From Making PPD Claims | 08/08/2024 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A trial court erred when it granted a motion in limine to preclude an injured worker from presenting to a jury the question of eligibility for a permanent partial disability award, the Washington State Court of Appeals ruled. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Untimely Appeal From Dismissal of Negligence Claim Against Doctor | 08/08/2024 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Tennessee Court of Appeals said a series of post-order motions filed by a self-represented injured worker didn’t extend the statute of limitations, so the appeal of the order dismissing his negligence claims against a doctor was untimely. ...Read More | |||
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High Court Holds That Commission Did Not Err in Assessment of Worker's Credibility | 08/08/2024 | |
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| State: ID | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Although the Idaho Industrial Commission erred in several credibility findings, the remainder of its determinations finding that an injured worker was not a reliable witness were supported by substantial and competent evidence, the state’s high court said in affirming the denial of benefits...Read More | |||
