Workers' Compensation News
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L&I Proposes Rate Increase | 09/17/2025 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries is proposing to increase the average hourly rate employers and workers pay for workers' compensation coverage by 4.9%. ...Read More | |||
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No Benefits for Worker Who Fell While Crossing Public Street | 09/17/2025 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that a worker was not entitled to benefits for her injuries from falling while using a crosswalk on a public street to move from a public parking lot to her workplace. ...Read More | |||
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Deputy Sheriff Not Entitled to Benefits for Heart Attack | 09/17/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a denial of benefits for a deputy sheriff’s heart attack. Case:...Read More | |||
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Staffing Company Worker Gets Benefits for Injuries From Car Accident on Private Road | 09/17/2025 | |
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| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that a staffing company employee’s injuries from a single-vehicle accident on a private road were compensable because he had been instructed to use the road to access his worksite. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Pass QME Template Bill | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Assembly unanimously concurred in amendments to a bill that would direct the Division of Workers' Compensation to create some medical-legal templates. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Widow's Claim for Firefighter's Cancer Death | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: NH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a widow’s claim for death benefits was timely and that an award was supported by competent evidence. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Appeal Fails Due to Lack of Challenge | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: TN | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel ruled that a worker’s failure to challenge both bases given by a judge for denying her motion to set aside a settlement was fatal to her appeal. ...Read More | |||
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BWC Medical and Health Symposium Begins Wednesday | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation is hosting its annual Medical & Health Symposium from Wednesday through Friday. The free virt...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Treatment, but Not Additional TTD, Expansion of Claim | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that a worker was not entitled to additional temporary total disability benefits or to expand the scope of her claim, but she should not have been denied a cold compression therapy unit and shoulder wrap for her compensable injury. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Law Defendant Gets Partial Summary Dismissal | 09/16/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a Labor Law defendant was entitled to partial summary judgment dismissing a claim against it, but it was not entitled to summary judgment on its indemnification claim against a co-defendant. ...Read More | |||
