Workers' Compensation News
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WCIRB Projects Highest Combined Ratio in 14 Years | 05/15/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California projected a 2024 accident year combined ratio of 123%, 10 percentage points higher than the year before and the highest ratio in 14 years. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Prove Marijuana Use Didn't Contribute to Fall From Roof | 05/15/2025 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld the denial of an injured worker’s claim for benefits because he failed to prove his use of marijuana had not contributed to the accident. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets TTD for Shoulder Injury, but Bid for More Rejected | 05/15/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld an award of temporary total disability benefits to a worker for a shoulder injury but rejected his claim of entitlement to more compensation. ...Read More | |||
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WCRI Reports Cost Trends Mostly Linked to Wages | 05/15/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers Compensation Research Institute said recent changes in overall costs per claim in Florida in 2022 and 2023 were largely the result of wage growth. ...Read More | |||
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WCB Holding Educational Sessions on CMS-1500 Mandate | 05/14/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board is holding a series of educational sessions ahead of a coming mandate that providers submit CMS-1500 medical billing forms electronically. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Prove Entitlement to Increased SLU Award | 05/14/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court upheld the schedule loss of use award issued to an injured worker, finding the opinions of his treating physician were properly discounted and that the lower percentages assigned by the employer’s consultant were properly used as the basis for the award. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Sprayed in Face by Sandblasting Equipment Gets Summary Judgment | 05/12/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker who was sprayed in the face by sandblasting equipment should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Challenge to Fee Award Fails | 05/12/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s failure to name his former attorney as a party was fatal to his appeal. Cas...Read More | |||
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Worker Who Fell From Scaffold Qualifies as Subcontractor's Employee | 05/12/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld a determination that a worker who fell from a scaffold was an employee of a subcontractor on a construction project as opposed to an independent contractor or special employee of the general contractor. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Proves Discrete New Injury to Previously Injured Ankle | 05/09/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker had suffered a discrete new injury to his previously injured ankle after twisting it at work. ...Read More | |||
