Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed a bill that requires carriers and self-insured employers to make a lump-sum payment of a permanent partial disability award if the injured worker waives reconsideration…
The maximum temporary total disability benefit in Oregon is increasing by 6.427% on July 1 to match the increase in the state’s average weekly wage.
The Workers’ Compensation Division on Thursday…
West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker had suffered a discrete new injury to his previously injured ankle after twisting it at work.
Case: Marion County…
Connecticut lawmakers voted to send the governor a bill that would make various changes to the program providing quasi-workers’ compensation benefits to firefighters with certain types of cancer.
Senate Bill 1426…
A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment dismissing the Labor Law claims against a homeowner for a worker’s alleged fall from a ladder.
Case: Buchanan v. De…
The New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division upheld the summary dismissal of a civil suit by the estate of a worker who was struck by a co-worker’s car and killed…