Medicaid disenrollment was associated with higher medical payments in workers' compensation claims during the period when enrollees were losing coverage, the Workers Compensation Research Institute
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Twenty-eight congressional Democrats are protesting planned rollbacks of regulations regarding respirator masks as proposed by the Trump administration.
In a letter addressed to David Keeling, an assistant
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A New York appellate court ruled that a plumber’s assistant should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his injuries from
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The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the denial of a demolition worker’s claim for benefits for a heart attack.
Case: Torres v. The Giant Co. LLC
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The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel upheld the denial of a worker’s request for extraordinary benefits.
Case: Burkes v. Sysco Knoxville
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A New York appellate court ruled that the defendants in a Labor Law action should not have been granted summary judgment dismissing all the claims against
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The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that a worker’s claim for further compensation was properly denied as untimely.
Case: Brown v. North Carolina Department
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The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed a Workers' Compensation Commission decision awarding a fee to an injured worker's attorney, finding that the employer had controverted
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The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that an excavation contractor was liable for damages to the company that hired it and that it committed a material breach
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The New York State Workers' Compensation Board has developed what it says is a new, improved website search tool.
The new search tool is accessible from anywhere
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