Workers' Compensation News
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Court Revives Stevedore's Claim for Asbestos Exposure | 07/03/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Vendor | |||
| A Louisiana appellate court revived a claim for damages for a stevedore’s alleged industrial asbestos exposure. Case: May v...Read More | |||
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Worker Fails to Link Need for Name-Brand Medication to Occupational Pneumoconiosis | 07/03/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a doctor’s request for a worker to receive an oral medication prescribed for lung diseases. ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB Estimates $1.3B Underwriting Loss for 2024 | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| An increase in incurred losses and expenses, coupled with a decrease in earned premium, resulted in a $1.3 billion underwriting loss in 2024, according to a new report by the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California. ...Read More | |||
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WCIRB Names Eric Sanders Chief Customer Operations Officer | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Tuesday announced the appointment of Eric Sanders as senior vice president and chief customer operations officer. ...Read More | |||
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Another Lawsuit Alleges Widespread Scheme to Stage Accidents | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Two insurance companies filed a federal lawsuit accusing a prominent New York personal injury law firm and dozens of doctors, clinics and other defendants of orchestrating a massive fraud scheme built around staged construction accidents, medically unnecessary treatments and inflated settlement d...Read More | |||
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Manual Labor Exception Doesn't Apply to Independent Contractor's Workers | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: LA | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that employees and contractors working for an independent contractor do not fall within the manual labor exception for entitlement to workers’ compensation benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Association Not Proper Party to Widow's Claim for Benefits | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the state’s Self-Insurance Security Association was not a proper party to a widow’s claim for benefits after her late husband’s self-insured employer went insolvent. ...Read More | |||
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Benefits Claim Reinstated for Ex-Deputy With Multiple Amputations | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit revived a former deputy sheriff’s claim for benefits under the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Act, finding that the Bureau of Justice Assistance had a duty to secure records from the jails at which he worked to determine whether...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Finding of Compensability for Worker's Back Injury | 07/02/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker suffered a compensable back injury. Case: Sparta...Read More | |||
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Paul Randall Implicated in $270 Million Scam Targeting Medi-Cal | 07/01/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The U.S. Attorney's Office for Central California announced that convicted fraudster Paul Randall has been charged with participating in a scheme to bilk Medi-Cal out of $270 million for medically unnecessary prescription drugs that were procured by kickbacks. ...Read More | |||
