A Louisiana appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of two workers’ intentional tort claims against their statutory employer for their burn injuries in a refinery accident.

West Virginia’s Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s request to expand the scope of his claim.

Case: Delsignore v. Timberline Logging Enterprises LLC,

The Mississippi Court of Appeals overturned a determination of the lump-sum payment of benefits owed to a worker.

Case: Mueller Industries Inc. v. Waits, No.

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Civil Appeals erred in reviving a health care worker’s claim for benefits for her COVID-19 infection.

West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker was entitled to benefits for his occupational asthma from his on-the-job chemical exposures.