The Michigan Supreme Court issued four separate opinions regarding an opioid-dependent worker’s eligibility for benefits, with a majority concluding the record was “too incomplete to facilitate meaningful appellate review.”
Case: Jordan v.
The Ohio Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s request for an enhanced award of benefits, finding his employer had not violated a specific safety requirement applicable to…
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that utilization review determinations can’t be used to establish the causal relationship between a treatment and a work injury, and upheld the denial of…
A Texas appellate court ruled that the alleged employer of a fatally injured worker was entitled to a writ of mandamus placing tort litigation between itself and the worker’s family…
The Illinois Attorney General’s Office confirmed that it referred to prosecutors a possible workers’ compensation fraud case involving a former campaign worker for Gov. J.B. Pritzker, according to a report…
The state of Iowa spent almost $3.2 million defending former Gov. Terry Branstad for actions he took to force Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Chris Godfrey out of office, according to a…