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Court Upholds Penalty on Claims Administrator for Failing to Timely Act on IME Report
West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a $1,500 penalty against a claims administrator for failing to act on an independent medical examiner’s report within 30 days. Case: State Auto Insurance…
Court Dismisses Worker’s Challenge to Calculation of Benefit Rate as Moot
A Texas appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s challenge to the calculation of his temporary income benefit rate as moot. Case: Davis v. American Casualty Co. of Reading PA,…
Law Firm Denied Summary Dismissal of Worker’s Malpractice Claim
A New York appellate court ruled declined to dismiss a malpractice suit alleging a law firm mishandled a workers’ compensation claim. Case: Puccio v. Hoffman, Wachtell & Rao LLP, No. 2025-00992,…
Federal Court Upholds Black Lung Award for Coal Miner
A federal appellate court upheld a black lung benefits award, finding a coal miner's employment caused legal pneumoconiosis that substantially contributed to his being totally disabled. Richard Estudillo worked as an…
DWC Proposes 2027 Research Agenda
The Division of Workers' Compensation will update studies on employer participation and access to care in 2027, according to a notice posted in the Texas Register. The division's Workers' Compensation Research…
Rand: Stable Access, Decreasing Provider Participation a ‘Puzzle’
Rand said in a new report that contradictory findings about provider participation trends and access to care in California's workers' compensation system "pose somewhat of a puzzle." "We found flat or…
Court: Decision Authorizing Arthroscopy Not Clearly Wrong
The Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia affirmed a Workers' Compensation Board of Review decision authorizing an arthroscopy of a firefighter's left wrist because it was not clearly wrong. Case:…
WCAB: Worker Fails to Prove Mental Injury Arising From Routine Meeting
The Tennessee Workers' Compensation Appeals Board affirmed a decision finding that a worker failed to prove that her alleged mental health injuries were primarily caused by an event leading to…
BWC Approves $1 Billion Dividend
The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, in announcing its latest dividend Friday, said it has returned more money to employers since 2019 than it collected in premiums. BWC announced that its…
OSHA Fines Brickmaker $496,528 Over Silica Hazards
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined a brickmaker in Pennsylvania nearly half a million dollars for allegedly knowingly exposing its workers to unsafe levels of respirable silica dust. OSHA said…
Group Workers’ Comp Pools Are Dragging Down Your Premium — Why Going Custom-Quoted Saves More
Attention risk managers, HR directors, and small-business owners in manufacturing and service industries: if your company relies on a captive workers’ compensation pool, you may be paying more than necessary. In our experience, pool-based pricing of…
Court Rejects Worker’s Claim for Stress-Related Psychological Injury
A Louisiana appellate court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s claim for a psychological injury caused by her work-related stress. Case: May v. Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Cos., Nos. 25-CA-576 and 25-C-491,…