The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that a “total loss of wage-earning capacity” is a total loss of the employee’s personal capacity to earn wages in any type of employment.
Case:…
A New York appellate court upheld a jury verdict that found a worker’s death was not causally related to an alleged accident involving a ladder striking him in the chest.
Case: Caminiti…
West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld an award of permanent partial disability benefits to a law enforcement officer who had been shot in the leg.
Case: Upshur County Commission v.
Lawmakers in Washington state introduced identical companion bills that would create a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is a compensable occupational disease for correctional facility workers.
The presumption proposed by House…
The New York State Workers’ Compensation Board created a new form as part of a change to the process used to update claimants’ information.
The new Form OC-966, “Claimant Name and…