Workers' Compensation News
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L&I Fines Timber Company After Illegally Employed Teen's Injury | 03/05/2025 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Other | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries fined a timber company $114,300 for alleged violations resulting from an illegally employed teenager's industrial injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Claim of Injury From Unloading Materials | 03/05/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The Louisiana Court of Appeal upheld the denial of a worker’s claim of injury from unloading materials from a truck. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Payment of Cop's Salary Not Acceptance of Liability for COVID-19 Infection | 03/05/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a city’s payment of a police officer’s salary while he was on excused time due to a COVID-19 infection was not an acceptance of liability for a work-related illness. ...Read More | |||
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Court Says Employer Can't Rely on Fraudulent Inducement Defense for Worker's Claim | 03/05/2025 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that a fraud inducement defense to a workers’ compensation claim does not apply when the employer learns about a false representation after hiring an employee but before she is injured. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Stagehand Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim | 03/05/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment to an injured stagehand on his Labor Law claim. Case: Traub v. Basketb...Read More | |||
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Injured Worker's Unguarded Press Tort Fails; Employer Not Entitled to Recover Costs | 03/04/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appeals court ruled that a trial court properly granted summary judgment after finding that an injured worker's negligence claim didn't fit into the narrow exception to exclusivity when an employer removes a guard from machinery. ...Read More | |||
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WCD Switching to Electronic Process for Claims Delinquency Report | 03/04/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division on Monday announced that it is moving to an electronic process for the quarterly claims delinquency report. ...Read More | |||
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Court Again Rules That Worker's Refusal of Light Duty Doesn't Warrant Denial of Benefits | 03/04/2025 | |
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| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Georgia Court of Appeals revised its prior determination that a worker should not have been denied temporary total disability benefits after he refused a light-duty position during the COVID-19 pandemic because of his underlying health issues. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Award of Benefits for Bus Driver's Shoulder Injury | 03/04/2025 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of benefits to a bus driver for a shoulder injury. Case: Rock Region Me...Read More | |||
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Worker Not Entitled to Revive Claim After Failing to Respond to Employer's Appeal | 03/04/2025 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| An Ohio appellate court ruled that a worker was not entitled to relief from a judgment dismissing her claim after she repeatedly failed to respond to her employer’s challenges to the compensability of her alleged accident. ...Read More | |||
