The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that an occupational disease that manifests more than four years after an employee’s last exposure to hazards causing that disease is not subject to…
Bills introduced in the Montana Legislature would give employees the ability to choose their treating physicians in workers’ compensation cases and add testicular and cervical cancer to the list of…
The Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously overturned a denial of benefits to a taxi driver who was paralyzed from being shot by a passenger, expressly adopting the “economic realities test” for determining if…
The Alabama Supreme Court declined to grant mandamus relief to allow a defendant in a workers’ compensation/wrongful death action to amend an answer to raise a previously omitted affirmative defense.
Case:…
The Ohio Supreme Court ordered a lower court’s judge to give up jurisdiction over a city’s suit against the state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation challenging its premium calculation methods.
In 2013,…