General Assembly Passes Group Self-Insurance Bills
The Virginia General Assembly passed a bill that would allow group self-insurance associations to merge.
Del. William C. Wampler
The Senate on Feb. 16 voted 40-0 to pass HB 2418, by…
Worker’s Latent Illness Not Subject to Occupational Disease Act’s Exclusive Remedy Provision
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 Would Allow Workers to Choose Treating Doctor, Revise Firefighter Presumptions
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…
High Court Revives Paraplegic Taxi Driver’s Claim for Benefits
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…
Supreme Court Won’t Allow Defendant to Challenge Widow’s Standing
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:…