Workers' Compensation News
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Insurance Commissioner Announces Reappointments | 03/07/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced reappointments to organizations that influence policy and regulation of the workers' compensation industry in the Golden State. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Says BWC Can Recover Overpayment of Benefits to Worker | 03/07/2024 | |
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| State: OH | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation was entitled to recoup an overpayment of benefits to a worker between the time she reached maximum medical improvement and when her temporary total disability was terminated. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Overturns Award to Janitor for Alleged Chemical Exposure | 03/07/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court overturned an award of benefits to a janitor for her alleged injuries from exposure to a cleaning chemical. ...Read More | |||
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Temp Worker Can't Maintain Civil Suit Against Employer of One Day | 03/07/2024 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a temporary worker injured on his one-day assignment could not maintain a civil suit against the employer. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Not Entitled to Continuing TTD After Knee Surgeries | 03/07/2024 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Delaware Superior Court upheld a determination that an injured worker was not entitled to continuing total disability benefits after bilateral knee surgeries. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Truck Driver's Request for More Treatment | 03/06/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a truck driver’s request for additional treatment and the expansion of his claim. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Compensability for Coal Miner's Radiculopathy | 03/06/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a finding that a coal miner’s radiculopathy was related to his on-the-job fall and that he was entitled to a referral to a neurosurgeon. ...Read More | |||
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Children May Proceed With Tort Suit Against Parents' Employer | 03/06/2024 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court said summary judgment is not appropriate in deciding if birth defects in children are the result of their parents' workplace exposure to chemicals. ...Read More | |||
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Court Revives Tort Suit Against Company for Birth Defects in Children of Employees | 03/06/2024 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court overturned a grant of summary judgment for an employer, finding triable questions existed as to whether the birth defects suffered by employees’ children were causally related to the employees' workplace exposures. ...Read More | |||
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Company Not Civilly Liable to Employee Knocked Out in Fight With Foreman | 03/05/2024 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Texas appellate court ruled that a company was entitled to summary judgment dismissing a civil suit by an employee who was punched out by his foreman for complaining about being left behind at a hotel. ...Read More | |||
