The Alaska Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to a state law limiting a worker’s estate to the collection of funeral expenses, since she had no dependents when she was…
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a widow was not entitled to benefits for a man’s death that occurred after she had filed for divorce.
Case: Walton v. Iddings Brothers LLC, No. 75 C.D. 2021,…
The Utah Supreme Court ruled that the family of a worker killed in an excavator accident failed to assert a viable claim that his employer had intentionally injured him.
Case: Christiansen…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans to file a lawsuit to prevent the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration from enforcing an emergency workplace safety standard that would mandate vaccinations…
Workers’ compensation carrier The Hartford announced a partnership with the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine to develop a training program focused on addiction, pain management and stigma for providers treating…