Federal workplace safety regulators fined a general contractor in Maine $161,325 saying it ignored repeated warnings and its own site-specific safety plan prior to a
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The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation is seeking comments on two fee schedule rules and an outpatient formulary regulation.
The bureau is proposing to adopt
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A New York appellate court ruled that a defendant in a civil suit was not entitled to relief from a default judgment against it even
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The Workers' Compensation Commission Division of the Illinois Appellate Court said a claimant who worked at 29 jobsites in 16 months was a traveling employee
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An Ohio appeals court affirmed an award of additional benefits for a worker injured in a trench collapse.
Case: State ex rel. Allen Industries Inc.
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that his office obtained a $300,000 settlement with Arise Virtual Solutions Inc. to resolve allegations that the company misclassified its
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The Connecticut Supreme Court issued two unanimous precedential rulings that grant injured workers who retire voluntarily but continue to suffer from injuries access to permanent
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The Iowa Court of Appeals ruled that the workers’ compensation commissioner miscalculated a worker’s average weekly wage in the weeks leading up to her injury.
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A divided New York appellate court overturned an administrative determination that an injured worker failed to demonstrate his reattachment to the labor market, given his
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A New York appellate court ruled that a Labor Law defendant was entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s claims against it but that the trial
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