Workers' Compensation News
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L&I Fines Georgia Pacific for Fatal Accident | 10/03/2024 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries fined Georgia Pacific $648,292 after a worker was crushed by an unguarded packing machine. Ge...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Request to Expand Claim, Undergo Additional Imaging | 10/03/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a request to expand the scope of a worker’s claim and for additional imaging. Cas...Read More | |||
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Labor Law Defendants Get Summary Dismissal of Claim | 10/03/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld summary judgment for the defendants in a Labor Law case involving a worker’s fall from the roof of a home undergoing renovations. ...Read More | |||
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Court Tosses Appeal of Stay Order as Moot | 10/03/2024 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal from an order staying enforcement of a workers’ compensation award pending judicial review because the review process was completed. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Jury Verdict for Railway on Prejudicial Evidentiary Error | 10/02/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court overturned a jury verdict in favor of a railway, finding that the trial judge prejudicially erred in excluding the testimony of an injured worker’s expert witness. ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB Posts Report on COVID Claims | 10/02/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| About 15% of COVID-19 claims with medical payments involved treatment for long COVID symptoms, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California reported. ...Read More | |||
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Fee Schedule Public Comment Period Opens | 10/02/2024 | |
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| State: NM | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Mexico Workers' Compensation Administration is accepting public comments on the 2025 fee schedule and billing instructions. ...Read More | |||
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MLAC Meets Oct. 10 | 10/02/2024 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Oregon's Management-Labor Advisory Committee meets at 10 a.m. Oct. 10 to cover a variety of topics. Among the ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Award of Occupational Disease Death Benefits | 10/02/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld an award of occupational disease-dependent death benefits to a worker’s widow. Case: ...Read More | |||
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Court Continues to Reject Repetitive Constitutional Challenges to IRE Process | 10/02/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania continues to reject repetitive challenges to the constitutionality of the state's new impairment rating evaluation process. ...Read More | |||
