Workers' Compensation News
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Governor Signs QME Template, Heart Presumption Bills | 10/07/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills to revise the medical-legal process and to extend the heart trouble presumption to peace officers for the Department of State Hospitals and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. ...Read More | |||
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Double-Dipping Worker Gets Probation, $122,000 Restitution Order | 10/07/2025 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A judge in Washington state ordered a man to repay the $122,000 he collected in workers' compensation benefits while working another job. Efrain A...Read More | |||
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High Court Hearing Oral Arguments in Undocumented Worker Benefits Challenge | 10/07/2025 | |
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| State: MI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Michigan Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a constitutional challenge to a law being used to withhold wage-replacement benefits from undocumented workers who suffer compensable injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Calculation of Worker's AWW, Reinstates Award of Penalties, Fees | 10/07/2025 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court overturned the Workers’ Compensation Commission’s calculation of an injured mover’s average weekly wage and reinstated his award of penalties and fees. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Benefits for Worker's Burn Injuries | 10/07/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a denial of benefits for a worker’s burn injuries due to her lack of credibility. Case:...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim; Defendants Get Indemnification | 10/07/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment on a worker’s Labor Law claim and reinstated the defendants’ claim for indemnification. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Says Self-Insured Parent Not Liable for Black Lung Benefits | 10/07/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided federal appellate court ruled that the self-insured parent of a coal mine operator was not liable for black lung benefits on a claim filed years after the mine changed hands and the new owner went bankrupt. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Seeks Comments on Designated Doctor Audit Plan | 10/07/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation is accepting comments on its proposed Designated Doctor Plan-Based Audit. "This audit will evaluat...Read More | |||
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High Court Clarifies Standard for Calculating PPD Benefits | 10/06/2025 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Permanent partial disability benefits for nonschedule injuries must be calculated based on functional impairment instead of lost earnings when workers have returned to employment and earn at least as much as they did before an injury, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled. ...Read More | |||
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Measure Allowing Workers to Receive Benefits in Multiple Jurisdictions Takes Effect | 10/06/2025 | |
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| State: DC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A measure allowing those receiving workers' compensation benefits from a state system to also seek benefits in the District of Columbia took effect Wednesday. ...Read More | |||
