Workers' Compensation News
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Defendants Get Summary Judgment Dismissing Stagehand's Labor Law Claims | 01/24/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the defendants in a Labor Law action were entitled to summary judgment in their favor. Case: A...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Police Officer's Constitutional Challenge to Modification of Benefits | 01/24/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected a worker’s constitutional challenge to the modification of her total disability benefits under Act 111. ...Read More | |||
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Employer Gets Credit for Benefits Paid to Worker | 01/24/2024 | |
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| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the retroactive application of Act 111’s credit provision to an employer that made 500 weeks of benefit payments to an injured employee. ...Read More | |||
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Court: Property Owner Owed No Duty of Care to Employee Killed Crossing Street | 01/23/2024 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a property owner did not owe a duty of care to an employee who was struck and killed by a careless motorist while crossing the public street next to the hospital where she worked. ...Read More | |||
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Court Grants Partial Judgment for Worker, Revives Indemnification Claim Against Subcontractor | 01/23/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a subcontractor had not been entitled to summary judgment dismissing an indemnification claim by the defendants in a Labor Law action, but the worker in the Labor Law action was entitled to summary judgment dismissing the defendants’ comparative fault a...Read More | |||
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Worker Should Have Been Granted Leave to Amend Pleadings | 01/23/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should have been allowed to amend his pleadings to assert an Industrial Code violation that was arguably applicable to the circumstances of his alleged accident. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Factory Worker's Claim for Sinus Issues | 01/23/2024 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld the denial of a factory worker’s claim that her industrial exposure caused her to develop sinusitis. ...Read More | |||
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Long COVID Presumption Proposed for Essential Government Workers | 01/23/2024 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Essential government workers in Maryland who are diagnosed with long COVID would be presumed to have a compensable occupational disease, under a bill introduced in the state Senate. ...Read More | |||
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Measure Proposes Exception to Exclusive Remedy for Abusive Workplaces | 01/23/2024 | |
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| State: WI | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Workers’ compensation would not be the exclusive remedy for Wisconsin workers claiming injuries from abusive work environments, under legislation introduced in the state Senate last week. ...Read More | |||
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Bill Would Apply One-Year Limit on Provider Payment Disputes to All Claims | 01/23/2024 | |
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| State: VA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Virginia employers and work comp carriers would have one year to seek recovery of payments to health care providers regardless of the date payment was made, under legislation moving through the General Assembly. ...Read More | |||
