Workers' Compensation News
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Triable Questions Foreclose Summary Judgment | 05/14/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A New York appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment for a worker on his Labor Law claim, finding triable issues remained as to the circumstances of his alleged accident. ...Read More | |||
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Attorney for Injured Worker Fails to Negotiate Fee for Himself in Settlement | 05/14/2024 | |
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| State: DE | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Delaware Superior Court ruled that the attorney for an injured worker was not entitled to demand a fee from a settlement that did not provide a payment to him. ...Read More | |||
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Court Rejects Constitutional Challenges to New IRE Provisions | 05/13/2024 | |
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| State: PA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected a worker’s constitutional challenges to the state’s new impairment rating evaluation scheme but declined to impose costs and fees on him for raising the same challenges it has already rejected. ...Read More | |||
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Defendants in Personal Injury Action Fail to Prove Special Employment Relationship | 05/13/2024 | |
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| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A New York appellate court ruled that the defendants in a personal injury action failed to establish they were protected by workers’ compensation exclusivity. ...Read More | |||
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Court Upholds Denial of Benefits to Truck Driver for Alleged Hip Injury | 05/13/2024 | |
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| State: NC | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld a denial of benefits to a truck driver with a history of chronic pain for an alleged hip injury. ...Read More | |||
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Worker's Compensable Shoulder Injuries Qualify as Schedule Injuries | 05/13/2024 | |
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| State: IA | Segment: NORTH | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker suffered a consequential injury to her left shoulder from overuse after injuring her right shoulder at work and that they qualified as schedule injuries. ...Read More | |||
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Fraudster Gets 180 Days Behind Bars | 05/10/2024 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A California man pleaded no contest last week to felony insurance fraud and was sentenced to 180 days in jail. The Sacramento County Distric...Read More | |||
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Divided Court Upholds PTSD Award for Cop Allegedly Set Up for Assault | 05/10/2024 | |
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| State: MS | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld an award of permanent disability benefits to a former police officer who was beaten while responding to a call that she believed to have been set up by the chief of police. ...Read More | |||
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Split Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Worker's Request to Expand Claim | 05/10/2024 | |
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| State: WV | Segment: SOUTH | 0 | Popular with Insurance | |||
| A divided West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s request to expand the scope of his claim. Case: Parker...Read More | |||
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Worker Injured While Trying to Stop Falling Object Prevails on Claim | 05/10/2024 | |
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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 injuries from trying to prevent an air conditioning coil unit from falling. ...Read More | |||
