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Officials at the Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration rescinded citations levying more than $425,000 in penalties on Elon Musk's The Boring Co. less than a day after they were issued because they failed to assess the reasonableness of the company's mitigation efforts, according to a memo a state attorney wrote earlier this week.
The Nov. 17 memo addressed to the director the Department of Business and Industry,… Read more »
A New York appellate court upheld a determination that a worker lying about his entrepreneurial exploits warranted a forfeiture of benefits.
Case: Matter of Qureshi v. Rite Aid Corp., No. CV-23-2455, 11/13/2025, published.
Facts and procedural history: Abid Qureshi worked for the Rite Aid Corp. He established a workers' compensation claim for various physical injuries stemming from a February 2017 work-related accident and was awarded temporary partial disability benefits.
Qureshi later established a second… Read more »The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld an award of permanent total disability benefits for an injured… Read more »
The Illinois Appellate Court upheld the denial of a massage therapist’s claim… Read more »
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In 1952 (over 73 years ago) the California Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund in the Patterson case (17 CCC 142). But not only did the court uphold SIBTF constitutionally, they therein set forth the basis of how SIBTF benefits would be paid.
The court gives the example of the one-eyed man,… Read more »
The West Virginia Supreme Court overturned a denial of authorization for a worker’s knee surgery.
Case: Comas v. Bass Pro Group LLC, No. 24-290, 11/12/2025, published.
Facts: Charles Comas worked for the Bass Pro Group LLC. He slipped and fell on a wet concrete loading dock at work in September… Read more »
Senators from California and Utah introduced a bipartisan bill they say would create the first national respiratory protection standards for wildland firefighters.
The Healthy Lungs for Heroes Act, by Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and John Curtis, R-Utah, would direct the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Interior to work with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration… Read more »
The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance announced that workers' compensation rates will increase by an average of 1.3% in 2026.
DCI Director Angela Nelson said in a statement that the increase, the second in six years, reflects the year-to-year fluctuations the agency expects in a healthy insurance market.
The department said the long-term trend of… Read more »
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