Workers' Compensation News
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Court Upholds Finding of Lost Wage-Earning Capacity for Injured Worker | 06/05/2025 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker suffered a loss of wage-earning capacity from a back injury and an industrial loss of use of her leg due to a knee injury. ...Read More | |||
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CWCI: Long COVID Consumes 75% of Related Claim Payments | 06/04/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The California Workers’ Compensation Institute reported that cases of long COVID account for a disproportionate share of costs among claims for COVID-19. ...Read More | |||
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Comp Bills Heading to Governor | 06/03/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Texas lawmakers voted to send the governor bills that would allow remote contested case hearings, eliminate group self-insurance coverage and govern the use of artificial intelligence in claims handling. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Misconduct Findings Against Fugitive Uwaydah's Frontline Medical | 06/02/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appellate court ruled that multiple abuses of the discovery process and a pattern of intentionally false or misleading statements were sufficient for a Los Angeles court to grant case-terminating sanctions and dismiss a lawsuit filed by a company affiliated with fugitive Munir Uwayda...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Summary Dismissal of Intentional Tort Claims Against Statutory Employer | 06/02/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of two workers’ intentional tort claims against their statutory employer for their burn injuries in a refinery accident. ...Read More | |||
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Court Overturns Denial of Pharmacy's Petition to Strike Judgment | 05/30/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania overturned the denial of a pharmacy’s petition to strike a judgment against it, explaining that the pharmacy was not and could not be a party to the billing review proceedings in which a judge found that it had been overpaid. ...Read More | |||
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Claim by Worker Who Fell From Roof Not Amenable to Summary Judgment | 05/29/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker’s Labor Law claim for his fall from a condominium roof was not amenable to summary judgment. ...Read More | |||
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Commission Errs in Finding Temp Company's Client Is Dual Employer | 05/29/2025 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that the Workers’ Compensation Commission erred in finding that a business using a staffing company’s services was the dual employer of an injured worker. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Award for Worker's Occupational Asthma | 05/28/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker was entitled to benefits for his occupational asthma from his on-the-job chemical exposures. ...Read More | |||
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Court Says Tribal Immunity Extends to Health Care Contractor | 05/22/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California appeals court overturned a Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decision and held that a nonprofit health care organization that works with several Indian tribes is entitled to sovereign immunity. ...Read More | |||
