West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the denial of benefits to a coal miner’s widow, finding that occupational pneumoconiosis was not a material contributing
… Read more »The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected a worker’s constitutional challenge to the retroactive application of Act 111 to his injuries.
Case: Barrios v. City of
… Read more »A New York appellate court ruled that the defendant in a Labor Law action should have been granted summary judgment dismissing part of the injured
… Read more »The Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed the finding that a Minneapolis police officer had a compensable claim for post-traumatic stress disorder and was entitled to an
… Read more »The owner of a Long Island demolition company was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution for defrauding workers’
… Read more »The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the denial of a worker’s petitions for reinstatement of benefits and penalties as untimely.
Case: Munoz v. Jermacans Style
… Read more »A divided Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals ruled that the state Administrative Workers’ Compensation Act does not mandate the appointment of an independent medical examiner
… Read more »West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a 57% permanent partial disability award to a worker for his injuries from a tractor-trailer accident.
Case: Grimstone
… Read more »A New York appellate court revived part of a worker’s Labor Law action over his injuries from a fall from a scaffold ladder, overturned the
… Read more »The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation is providing free training for providers over the next month on the basics of work comp.
The division's Workers'
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