Workers' Compensation News
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Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Back Injury Claim | 05/05/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s claim for an alleged back injury due to his lack of credibility. Case:...Read More | |||
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State Issues First Fines for Warehouse Quota Violations | 05/02/2025 | |
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| State: WA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Washington state's workplace safety agency has fined Safeway more than $26,000 for alleged warehouse quota law violations, the first sanctions imposed under a 2024 law. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Denies Widow Benefits, Finds Worker's Death Unrelated to Prior Brain Injury | 05/02/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a denial of benefits to a worker’s widow, finding she did not prove that his traumatic brain injury from 32 years earlier led to his death. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Denies MRI, Expansion of Claim for Worker With Inhalation Injury | 05/01/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of authorization for a magnetic resonance imaging scan for a worker who suffered an inhalation injury, as well as the denial of the expansion of his claim. ...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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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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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 | |||
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Senate Passes Surcharge Bill | 04/29/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Texas Senate unanimously passed a bill to reclassify as “surcharges” some of the taxes insurance carriers currently pay to address the problem of retaliatory taxes levied in other states. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Termination of Worker's Benefits | 04/29/2025 | |
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| State: ND | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The North Dakota Supreme Court upheld a determination that an injured worker was not entitled to continued workers’ compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Supreme Court Upholds Calculation of Attorney Fees From Worker's Post-Offset Award | 04/28/2025 | |
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| State: MD | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Supreme Court of Maryland held that an attorney representing an injured worker is entitled to a percentage of the amount awarded by the Workers’ Compensation Commission after application of a statutory offset for his service-connected disability retirement benefits. ...Read More | |||
