Workers' Compensation News
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Ex-Police Officer's Deficient Briefing Compels Court to Uphold Dismissal of Her Claims | 07/03/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| A Texas appellate court upheld the dismissal of an injured police officer’s claims for wrongful termination and workers’ compensation retaliation. ...Read More | |||
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Injured Worker Not Entitled to Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim | 07/03/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was not entitled to summary judgment on the issue of liability for his Labor Law claims, but some of the defendants should have had the claims against them dismissed. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Stevedore's Claim for Asbestos Exposure | 07/03/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court revived a claim for damages for a stevedore’s alleged industrial asbestos exposure. Case: May v...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Link Need for Name-Brand Medication to Occupational Pneumoconiosis | 07/03/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a doctor’s request for a worker to receive an oral medication prescribed for lung diseases. ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB Estimates $1.3B Underwriting Loss for 2024 | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An increase in incurred losses and expenses, coupled with a decrease in earned premium, resulted in a $1.3 billion underwriting loss in 2024, according to a new report by the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California. ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB Names Eric Sanders Chief Customer Operations Officer | 07/02/2025 | |
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| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Tuesday announced the appointment of Eric Sanders as senior vice president and chief customer operations officer. ...Read More | |||
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Another Lawsuit Alleges Widespread Scheme to Stage Accidents | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two insurance companies filed a federal lawsuit accusing a prominent New York personal injury law firm and dozens of doctors, clinics and other defendants of orchestrating a massive fraud scheme built around staged construction accidents, medically unnecessary treatments and inflated settlement d...Read More | |||
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Manual Labor Exception Doesn't Apply to Independent Contractor's Workers | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that employees and contractors working for an independent contractor do not fall within the manual labor exception for entitlement to workers’ compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Association Not Proper Party to Widow's Claim for Benefits | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the state’s Self-Insurance Security Association was not a proper party to a widow’s claim for benefits after her late husband’s self-insured employer went insolvent. ...Read More | |||
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Benefits Claim Reinstated for Ex-Deputy With Multiple Amputations | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit revived a former deputy sheriff’s claim for benefits under the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Act, finding that the Bureau of Justice Assistance had a duty to secure records from the jails at which he worked to determine whether...Read More | |||
