Workers' Compensation News
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AG Announces $1.4M Settlement With Construction Company | 10/22/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday announced a $1.4 million settlement with a construction firm that was accused of repeatedly violating the state's workers' compensation laws. ...Read More | |||
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Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Premium Fraud | 10/22/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The owner of a New York iron and erecting company pleaded guilty Tuesday to underreporting payroll in order to fraudulently reduce his workers' compensation premiums, the Nassau County District Attorney's Office announced. ...Read More | |||
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Court Reinstates Arbitrator's Award of Full Holiday Pay for Injured Police Officer | 10/22/2025 | |
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| State: NJ | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division reinstated an arbitrator’s award, finding that a correctional police officer was entitled to full holiday pay for the holidays that fell within the time she was out on workers' compensation leave. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Finding of Compensability for Worker's Hearing Loss | 10/22/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned the Workers’ Compensation Board’s finding that a man had suffered compensable, noise-related hearing loss. ...Read More | |||
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Federal Court Denies Employer's Petition for Review of LHWCA Award | 10/22/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A federal appellate court denied an employer’s petition for review of a worker's Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Finding That Worker Had Discrete New Injury | 10/22/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a finding that a worker suffered a discrete new injury to his previously injured ankle after twisting it at work. ...Read More | |||
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Treatment Provider Can't Pursue Claim for Payment Against Employer | 10/21/2025 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court ruled that a treatment provider could not pursue a claim for payment against an employer for services rendered to an injured worker as a third-party beneficiary of a settlement. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Seeks Comments on Revisions to Complaint Form | 10/21/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Medical | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation is accepting public comments on proposed revisions to the form used to file complaints about administrative violations. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Proposes Rules for Death Investigator Benefits | 10/21/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation is accepting comments on rules it proposed to implement legislation entitling death investigators to reimbursement for medical expenses resulting from exposure to contagious diseases and to expedited medical benefits for work-related injuries....Read More | |||
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WCD Posts Assessment Bulletin for 2026 | 10/21/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division announced that premium assessment rates will remain unchanged in 2026. The division said the premium...Read More | |||
