Workers' Compensation News
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Court Overturns Summary Judgment for Ironworker's Fall Though Unguarded Floor Opening | 06/01/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 98 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 2 min read | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment for an ironworker on his Labor Law claim based on his fall through an opening in the floor of a building under construction. ...Read More | |||
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Court Tosses Sanctions Against Claimants' Firm for Doctors' Failure to Appear at Depositions | 06/01/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 124 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 2 min read | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned the imposition of sanctions against a claimants’ firm, finding that the Workers’ Compensation Board had cited the wrong statutory provision and that sanctions were not warranted in the first place. ...Read More | |||
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Commission to Fine Parties to Last-Minute Work Comp Settlements | 05/31/2018 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 124 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 31 min read | |||
| Iowa’s Division of Workers’ Compensation will soon levy late-settlement fines on both claimants and defendants in an effort to cut back on wasted time, money and effort caused when hearings are canceled at the last minute. ...Read More | |||
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Committee to Start on Formulary Required by Reform Law | 05/31/2018 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 335 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 41 min read | |||
| The Kentucky Workers' Compensation Medical Advisory Committee will meet today to discuss a drug formulary required by legislation that passed in March. ...Read More | |||
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Court Reinstates Denial of PTD Award for Worker With Opioid Addiction | 05/31/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 174 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 16 min read | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals ruled that a trial judge erred in overturning a decision of the workers’ compensation commissioner denying permanent total disability benefits for an employee dealing with an addiction to opioid medication. ...Read More | |||
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Claimant Attorney Disciplined for Mishandling Trust Account | 05/31/2018 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 132 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 2 min read | |||
| A Miami attorney was forced to shut down his practice for 10 days and pay $1,250 in costs for depositing settlement funds from a tort claim into his bank account even though a workers’ compensation carrier had posted a lien claiming a right to a portion of the money. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Worker's Occupational Disease Claim as Time-Barred | 05/30/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: MT | Segment: WEST | 99 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 210 min read | |||
| The Montana Workers’ Compensation Court ruled that a worker was time-barred from pursuing his occupational disease claim, since he waited more than a year to file after being diagnosed with degenerative disc disease. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Award of Payment for Worker's Self-Procured Treatment | 05/30/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: GA | Segment: SOUTH | 127 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 9 min read | |||
| The Georgia Court of Appeals overturned a judge’s order awarding an injured worker payment for the treatment provided by the doctors she had selected without the approval of her employer. ...Read More | |||
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Change in Partnership Didn't Leave Employer Without Coverage for Teenager's Death | 05/29/2018 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 98 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 27 min read | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a change in partners for a partnership running a farm business did not void the workers’ compensation insurance policy that a carrier had issued to the business, nor the carrier’s acceptance of liability for the death of a teenage employee....Read More | |||
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Court Reinstates Guaranty Association's Declaratory Relief Claim Against Dissolved Trust | 05/29/2018 | |
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| Source: WorkCompCentral | |||
| State: SC | Segment: SOUTH | 143 | 0 | Popular with Legal | 33 min read | |||
| The South Carolina Court of Appeals last week revived a dispute between the state Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association and a voluntarily dissolved business trust over liability for a collection of workers’ compensation claims that a defunct carrier had taken over when the tr...Read More | |||
