The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that an administrative law judge’s order awarding temporary total disability benefits to an injured worker was interlocutory and not appealable.
… Read more »A Texas appellate court revived an injured school district employee’s challenge to an administrative law judge’s determination that she was barred from pursuing compensation for
… Read more »A divided West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the doctrine of collateral estoppel did not bar a worker who failed to prove his occupational disease
… Read more »The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a former coal miner was entitled to an increased impairment award for the worsening of his occupational pneumoconiosis,
… Read more »A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that an employee who injures a colleague must be acting within the course and scope of employment when the
… Read more »The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld an award of benefits for a janitor who contracted Legionnaires’ disease.
Case: Scottish Rite Bodies of Charleston v. Weese, No. 22-0427,
… Read more »The West Virginia Supreme Court clarified the proper method for apportioning preexisting impairments that have been definitely ascertained and impact multiple body parts.
Case: Logan-Mingo
… Read more »A Texas appellate court ruled that a temporary employment provider’s employee could not pursue a civil remedy against his employer’s client for an on-the-job injury.
… Read more »The District of Columbia Court of Appeals overturned the denial of a university employee’s claim for injuries from a collision with a jogger as she
… Read more »The Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia upheld the denial of benefits to a widow, finding she failed to prove that her husband's death was
… Read more »Feb 5-7, 2025
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The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is pleased to announce that registration fo …