Workers' Compensation News
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State OSHA Fines Construction Company for Repeated Safety Violations | 03/29/2024 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Oregon's Occupational Safety and Health Division fined a Bend-based construction company more than $103,00 for repeatedly failing to protect workers from fall hazards. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Finds Miner's Pneumoconiosis Didn't Contribute to His Death | 03/27/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a determination that a worker’s occupational pneumoconiosis did not materially contribute to his death. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Endorses 'Directly Related' Test for Compensability of Treatment | 03/26/2024 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The North Carolina Supreme Court expressly adopted a long-standing Court of Appeals precedent using the "directly related" test to determine whether the causal connection required for treatment to be compensable has been satisfied. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Denies Additional Impairment for Coal Miner With Crush Injury | 03/26/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a determination that a coal miner was not entitled to additional disability for a crush injury to his left leg and foot. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Tosses Injured Worker's Wrongful Termination Claim Against Public Employer | 03/26/2024 | |
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| State: NE | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Nebraska Supreme Court threw out an injured worker’s wrongful termination claim against her public employer, finding the decision to fire her involved an element of judgment of the type that the Legislature intended to shield from tort action. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Accepts Review on Subrogation for Heart-Lung Benefits | 03/25/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will weigh in on whether a self-insured government entity can subrogate Heart and Lung Benefits Act compensation from a third-party settlement received by an employee injured in the line of duty. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Rejects Claim by Mine Foreman Injured in Neighboring State | 03/20/2024 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a mine foreman injured while working in West Virginia could not pursue a claim for benefits in his home state. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Bill to Expand Cancer Presumption | 03/18/2024 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Maryland Senate unanimously passed a bill requested by Gov. Wes Moore that would expand the list of cancers that are presumed to be compensable for firefighters and other public safety workers. ...Read More | |||
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Split Court Denies Benefits for Traveling Employee | 03/14/2024 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A narrowly divided Mississippi Court of Appeals ruled that a traveling employee was not entitled to benefits for his alleged injuries from a car accident that happened while returning to a job site after an unauthorized midweek trip home. ...Read More | |||
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Senate Passes Agreed-Upon Comp Bill | 03/14/2024 | |
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| State: WI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Wisconsin Senate passed a multifaceted bill that would increase benefits and implement procedural changes through provisions agreed upon by members of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council. ...Read More | |||
