Workers' Compensation News
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Loss Costs Decreasing 32.8% Due to Bill Eliminating Payroll Cap | 09/09/2026 | |
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| State: NV | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nevada Workers' Compensation Section on Tuesday announced that workers' compensation loss costs are decreasing by 32.8%, effective Oct. 1, as a direct result of a bill eliminating a payroll cap used to calculate premiums. ...Read More | |||
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Contractors Charged With Submitting Fraudulent Work Comp Certificates to Obtain Licenses | 09/09/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Nassau County District Attorney's Office charged four New York contractors with submitting fraudulent workers' compensation certificates to obtain contractor licenses. ...Read More | |||
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Commission Properly Reduces Worker's Permanent Disability Rating | 09/09/2026 | |
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| State: MO | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Missouri appellate court upheld a decision by the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission to reduce a worker’s permanent partial disability rating from 25% to 7%. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Widow's Claim That Job Stress Led to Husband's Death | 09/09/2026 | |
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| State: CT | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld the denial of a widow’s claim that work-induced stress was a contributing factor to her husband’s heart disease and death. ...Read More | |||
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Labor Law Defendant Gets Partial Summary Dismissal of Claims | 09/09/2026 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a defendant in a Labor Law action was entitled to partial summary judgment dismissing the claims against it. ...Read More | |||
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Railroad Worker Can't Pursue State and FELA Claims Simultaneously | 09/09/2026 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court ruled that a railroad worker injured in the course and scope of employment may not simultaneously pursue claims for damages under state law and the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Procedural, Constitutional Challenges to Act 111 Rejected by Court | 09/08/2026 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejects procedural challenge to Act 111, as well as repetitive challenges to the constitutionality of the state's new impairment rating evaluation process. ...Read More | |||
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Court Publishes Split Decision on Employee's Selection of Doctors | 09/08/2026 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court ordered publication of its split decision finding that a worker did not exceed his allowable selection of two physicians to treat his compensable injury. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Jury's $22.5 Million Award for Concrete Form Collapse | 09/08/2026 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned a $22.5 million award of damages for a group of employees injured by the collapse of a concrete form during a road construction project against the engineers ...Read More | |||
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Exposure to Saliva of Potentially Rabid Animal Constitutes 'Injury' | 09/08/2026 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| In a case of first impression, West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that exposure to the saliva of a potentially rabid animal is sufficient to establish an injury for workers’ compensation purposes. ...Read More | |||
