Workers' Compensation News
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Lump-Sum Bill Heading to Governor's Desk | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: OR | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A bill that would clarify requirements for work comp carriers and self-insured employers to make lump-sum payments of permanent partial disability benefits is heading to the desk of Oregon’s governor. ...Read More | |||
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Lawmakers Pass Bill to Bar Bad Actors From Assigned Risk Plan | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: AZ | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Arizona lawmakers voted to send the governor a bill that would exclude certain employers from placement in the state’s assigned risk plan. ...Read More | |||
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DWC Accepts Comments on SIB, Arbitration Rules | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is accepting comments on draft amendments to rules governing arbitration and supplemental income benefits. ...Read More | |||
| Maximum, Minimum Compensation Rates Increasing July 1 | 04/30/2025 | ||
| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that maximum and minimum compensation rates will increase, effective July 1. The maximum compensation rate will be $1,463.10, up from the 2024 rate of $1,410. The minimum compensation rate will be $365.78, up from $352....Read More | |||
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Safety Regulator Seeks Criminal Prosecution After Teen Worker Loses Legs | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Washington's State Department of Labor and Industries is encouraging a county prosecutor to press charges against an employer for allegedly breaking youth labor laws, leading to an accident that cost a teen worker his legs. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Permission to Amend Complaint; Defendant Not Entitled to Dismissal | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld a trial justice’s grant of a worker’s request to amend his complaint to change the date of his alleged accident by one day, and it upheld the denial of the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Lung Transplant Referral, Medical Equipment | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of authorization for a lung transplant referral and medical equipment for a worker with a pulmonary disability. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Not Entitled to Additional TTD, Attorney Fees | 04/30/2025 | |
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| State: AR | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld a finding that an injured worker was not entitled to additional temporary total disability benefits or attorney fees. ...Read More | |||
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High Court: Negligence Claim Against Nonsubscriber Not an Action to Collect Benefits | 04/29/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Texas Supreme Court said a negligence claim against a nonsubscribing employer is an action to recover damages that is distinct from an action to collect benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Says FELA Doesn't Cover Worker's Suicide | 04/29/2025 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Employers’ Liability Act did not provide coverage for emotional injuries allegedly inflicted on a worker by a supervisor’s repeated acts of harassment that eventually drove the worker to commit suicide. ...Read More | |||
