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The Inmate Accident Compensation Act is the exclusive remedy for a man bitten by a dog while working in a Bureau of Prisons training program, the U.S. District Court for Colorado ruled.
The Bureau of Prisons and the nonprofit Dancing Dog Rescue and Recovery Ranch operated a dog training program at the federal correctional facility in Englewood. Inmates were paid by the Bureau of Prisons at the bureau's sole discretion to consider the project a… Read more »
The Connecticut Appellate Court tossed a worker’s appeal challenging the propriety of an attorney’s use of surveillance footage in defending his employer from his workers’ compensation claims.
Case: Ferrua v. Napoli Foods Inc., No. AC47975, 12/30/2025, published.
Facts: Elton Ferrua worked for Napoli Foods Inc. He filed two workers’ compensation claims against Napoli for injuries he allegedly sustained in March and April 2011.
Attorney… Read more »A New York appellate court overturned a grant of summary judgment for a worker who slipped and fell in a… Read more »
A divided Ohio appellate court upheld the dismissal of an injured corrections officer’s claims against her employer,… Read more »
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A Louisiana appellate court vacated an award of damages to a crane operator due to procedural errors and deficiencies in the trial court’s judgments.
Case: Finney v. Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, No. 2025-CA-0423, 01/07/2026, published.
Facts: Darre Finney, a crane operator, sustained injuries while loading a vessel… Read more »
A bill in Georgia would exempt what can best be described as "gig economy" nurses from the definition of "employee" for workers' compensation purposes.
HB 991, introduced Thursday by Rep. Todd Jones, R-South Forsyth, resembles a health care industry version of HB 339, a 2022 bill that Georgia lawmakers passed to define as contractors those who work for Uber, Lyft,… Read more »
Arizona lawmakers introduced language that would explicitly state that adenocarcinoma is covered by a presumption that cancer is an occupational disease for certain first responders, targeting the latest technical argument insurers have used to challenge claims.
Current law presumes that brain, bladder and colorectal cancer,… Read more »
A bill in Nebraska would require employers to pay for interpreters for injured workers who cannot readily communicate in English or another language spoken by a medical provider.
Under changes proposed in LB 1056, introduced Wednesday, employers would be responsible for “all reasonable costs of interpretation services” related to medical, surgical or hospital care when… Read more »If the past few years have taught attorneys one thing about artificial intelligence, it’s that they should not trust AI for case citations.
In December 2025, a friendly neighborhood judge asked if I had heard about the latest decision imposing sanctions for faulty citations. To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure about this most recent case, only because there were so… Read more »
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