Latest Work Comp News

The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries cited Nippon Dynawave for failing to document its safety plans or keep required records relating to an […]

The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division will hold a virtual hearing on Sept. 17 to discuss the Workers' Benefit Fund assessment rate for 2027. The WBF […]

Judge Jeffrey Tobin, an arbitrator with the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, died Saturday at the age of 65. Tobin practiced law for nearly 40 years […]

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that the owner of a contracting firm who allegedly fled a job after receiving a stop-work order for […]

A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was not entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his alleged injuries from a fall at a […]

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a workers’ compensation judge erred in addressing an employer’s termination petition and two utilization […]

The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld a denial of benefits for a worker’s adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine. Larry Driscoll worked as a water distribution […]

The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a compensable injury aggravated a worker’s preexisting ankle condition, which resulted in her need […]

The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld the summary dismissal of a civil suit against a hospital for the death of an immunocompromised emergency room nurse […]

The California Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board's practice of self-tolling the 60-day statutory deadline to rule on […]