Workers' Compensation News
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Jury's Finding of Permanent Disability Not Grossly Excessive | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Maryland Appellate Court upheld a jury’s determination that a firefighter suffered a 63% permanent partial disability from a back injury. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Mileage Reimbursements Properly Excluded From AWW Calculation | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: KY | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s average weekly wage was properly calculated as excluding the mileage reimbursements she received from her employer. ...Read More | |||
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Claims Administrator Unreasonably Denies Reinstatement of Worker's TTD | 09/04/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that a claims administrator unreasonably denied reinstatement of a worker’s temporary total disability benefits for failure to attend a medical evaluation. ...Read More | |||
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Statute of Limitations for SIBTF Claims Included Among Late-Session Bill Amendments | 09/03/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| California lawmakers amended a handful of workers' compensation bills covering second injury fund claims and presumptions for agricultural workers as the Legislature heads into the final two weeks of the 2025 session. ...Read More | |||
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Gideon Baum Succeeds Alex Swedlow as CWCI President | 09/03/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gideon Baum succeeded Alex Swedlow to become the fifth president of the California Workers' Compensation Institute, effective Monday. ...Read More | |||
| CompSource Pitches Conversion to Stock Carrier | 09/03/2025 | ||
| State: OK | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| After about a decade of operating as a private mutual carrier, Oklahoma's CompSource Mutual Insurance Co. is proposing to convert to a stock carrier. The board of directors for CompSource in April approved a reorganization plan that includes forming a mutual insurance holding company ...Read More | |||
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NCCI Recommends 6.9% Rate Cut | 09/03/2025 | |
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| State: FL | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The National Council on Compensation Insurance is recommending that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation reduce workers' compensation rates by an average of 6.9%, effective Jan. 1. ...Read More | |||
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Board Fails to Properly Analyze Worker's Claim for Additional Treatment, Pain Management | 09/03/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that the Board of Review failed to properly analyze a worker’s claim for additional treatment and pain management. ...Read More | |||
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Service Error Warrants Dismissal of Carrier's Claim | 09/03/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Pennsylvania appellate court upheld the dismissal of an insurance carrier’s breach of contract claim against an employer for its alleged failure to pay its workers’ compensation premiums, finding the implosion of the law firm representing the carrier did not excuse the lack of dilig...Read More | |||
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Exclusivity Shields Borrowing Employer of Injured Worker | 09/03/2025 | |
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| State: MA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled that exclusivity shielded the borrowing employer of a staffing agency’s injured employee. Case:...Read More | |||
