Workers' Compensation News
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Court: Payment of Wages to Cop With COVID Wasn't in Lieu of Benefits | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a city’s payment of wage continuation benefits to a police officer after she contracted COVID-19 was not an acceptance of liability for her illness as compensable. ...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Summary Judgment on Labor Law Claim for Fall From Concrete Form | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his fall from a concrete form. Cas...Read More | |||
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Group Self-Insurance Trust's Claim for Payment of Assessment Revived | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a finding that a group self-insurance trust’s claim for payment from a former member was time-barred. ...Read More | |||
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Construction Company Will Pay $191,750 for Misclassification | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: DC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A Virginia-based masonry construction company will pay $191,750 for misclassifying nearly 60 members of its workforce as independent contractors and denying them benefits required by District of Columbia law. ...Read More | |||
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TDI Accepting Comments on Proposed Classification Changes | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: TX | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| The Texas Department of Insurance is accepting comments through May on proposed changes to classifications for hazardous material removal. The Natio...Read More | |||
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Worker Gets Authorization for Surgery to Address Toe Injury | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld surgery authorization for a worker with a toe injury from an on-the-job fall. ...Read More | |||
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Commissioner Approves 8.67% Reduction in Loss Costs | 04/02/2025 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Humphreys approved an 8.67% average reduction in workers' compensation loss costs for policies incepting on or after April 1. ...Read More | |||
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Mitch Steiger Reappointed to CHSWC | 04/01/2025 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Mitch Steiger was reappointed to the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation for a term that runs through December 2028. ...Read More | |||
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No Additional Treatment for Worker's Alleged Conditions From Chemical Exposure | 04/01/2025 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker was not entitled to additional medical treatment for her alleged conditions from chemical exposure, but she was entitled to additional temporary total disability benefits. ...Read More | |||
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Court Says Board Erred in Denying Carrier's Application for Review | 04/01/2025 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board that denied an insurance carrier’s application for review because the carrier failed to file separate copies of the application form for each of the claims involving the same worker. ...Read More | |||
