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The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld an award of more than $2 million in attorney fees to an injured worker who prevailed on his disability discrimination and retaliation claims.
The appellate court also awarded more than $111,000 in additional fees for successfully defending the attorney fee award on appeal.
Scott Caldwell worked for UniFirst Corp. He injured his back at work, which resulted in difficulties performing his job as a district service… Read more »
An Ohio appellate court upheld the dismissal of a widow’s claim for a roofing foreman's fatal injuries from a fall.
Case: Adams v. Kline & Kavali Mechanical Contractors LLC, No. 31429, 03/11/2026, published.
Facts: Ryan Adams worked as a foreman roofer for Building Technicians Corp.
He fell 20 feet through a roof two days before Christmas in 2020. Adams suffered serious injuries, and he died in October 2023.
BTC was the contractor completing a roof replacement… Read more »A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment for a… Read more »
A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was not entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for a… Read more »
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A federal program aimed at protecting workers from heat-related injuries is set to expire today, April 8, raising concerns about enforcement gaps heading into the summer months.
In 2022, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration launched the national emphasis program, allowing the agency to inspect high-risk workplaces to prevent heat-related injuries and deaths.… Read more »
The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California on Tuesday announced that its special inspection fee will increase to $500 per location from $200, effective July 1.
The WCIRB conducts special inspections to determine and confirm the correct industrial classifications applicable to a policyholder's business.
Special inspections are outside of the… Read more »The New Mexico Workers' Compensation Administration on Tuesday adopted rules that it said will provide more clarity when awarding attorney fees and eliminate a provision that inadvertently limits communications with case managers.
Changes to the attorney fee rules require that all petitions for fees equal to or above the cap… Read more »
Bills introduced in New York would bring app-based delivery workers under the state’s workers' compensation system by classifying them as employees of delivery network companies.
SB 9813, introduced Monday, would amend the state’s workers' compensation law to define delivery network companies as the employers… Read more »
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill creating a presumption that Parkinson's disease arose from employment for firefighters.
The governor on Monday signed HB 466, which would presume that Parkinson's is a compensable occupational disease for firefighters who demonstrate exposure to a known toxin during… Read more »
The death of Jairo Ramirez, a pipe company worker in Monterey who was crushed inside a cement mixer in 2021, is not only a tragic workplace fatality, it is also an indictment of a system that nearly failed to act.
A Cal/OSHA investigation found that Ramirez’s employer had disabled a critical safety mechanism designed to prevent the machine from operating… Read more »
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