Best Read Workers' Compensation Headlines
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#1 Alabama Prisoners Work at Stores But Not Eligible for Parole or Workers’ Comp
Dec 23 2024 // DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to companies like Home Depot...
#2 Viewpoint: Landmark Workers’ Comp Subrogation Decision in Nevada
Oct 15 2024 // In one of the most pro-subrogation decisions in a generation, the Nevada Supreme Court has overnight turned Nevada into one of the most favorable states for workers’ compensation subrogation. With the stroke of a...
#3 Chased by Golf Cart at Work: Horseplay or Assault? For Workers’ Comp, It Matters.
Jun 5 2025 // Workers’ compensation benefits are not available to a worker injured when he was chased and hit by a golf cart driven by a co-worker who claimed he was just horsing around. The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that...
#4 Court Nixes Workers’ Compensation for ‘Light Beer’ Drinking UPS Driver
Dec 11 2024 // A United Parcel Service (UPS) driver who was intoxicated when he crashed his semi-trailer delivery truck has been denied workers’ compensation benefits. Delaware Superior Court Judge Kathleen Vavala last week...
#5 Viewpoint: Early Executive Actions by Trump Portend a Major Contraction at OSHA
Feb 10 2025 // President Trump was sworn in for a second term the morning of January 20, and he spent the rest of that day setting a record for the most ever Day 1 executive actions. Among those Day 1 executive actions (and a couple...
#6 ‘Old School’ Job Search Benefits Injured Worker in Lost Wages Claim
Feb 7 2025 // A manufacturer and its workers compensation insurer thought an injured 60-year old service technician employee did not work hard enough to find a suitable replacement job as required to qualify for wage loss benefits....
#7 Florida Appeals Court Upsets Applecart on Workers’ Comp Statute of Limitations
Jan 16 2025 // A recent decision and concurring opinion by a Florida appeals court may have upset years of practice and could raise costs for workers’ compensation insurers. Some claims that carriers were once ready to close out of...
#8 No Time Limit on Adding Dependent to Open Workers Comp Claim: NH High Court
Mar 4 2025 // Adding a dependent to an open workers’ compensation death benefits claim does not constitute a separate claim, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled last week. Furthermore, the court concluded, there is no statutory...
#9 NC Carrier Sanctioned for Pressing Workers’ Comp Claim it Had Denied
Jul 7 2025 // What happens when an employer and its workers’ compensation insurer deny a claim, then face a wrongful-death tort suit, then attempt to have the comp claim reinstated, going so far as to pay weekly wage amounts to...
#10 He Saved the Chocolates But Lost His Workers’ Compensation Insurance
Jan 1 2025 // An employee who was injured when rescuing chocolate candies from the heat in his employer-owned delivery truck is not due workers’ compensation benefits. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC)...
#11 Employee Whiffs on Workers Compensation Claim for TopGolf Injury
Mar 19 2025 // An employee who claims he injured his knee while swinging a club during an employer-sponsored TopGolf event has failed to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation...
#12 Court Must Decide If Child Victims Act Revives Old Workers’ Compensation Claims
Jul 31 2024 // Did New York lawmakers intend the Child Victims Act (CVA) that revived old claims of sexual abuse to apply to claims by employees that would previously have been handled by the workers’ compensation...
#13 Anticipated Regulatory Changes With OSHA
May 5 2025 // With President Donald Trump now in his second term, several changes to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are anticipated based on his previous administration’s approach, current policy signals,...
#14 Employer’s Clinic May Not be Protected by Workers’ Comp Remedy, SC Court Says
Aug 13 2024 // The South Carolina Court of Appeals has signaled that employers who offer on-site health clinics may not be immune from tort claims from injured or sickened workers. It’s the latest twist to a question that has...
#15 BTW Settles Whistleblower Suit on Overbilling of Federal Workers’ Comp Program
Jan 2 2025 // BTW Solutions bills itself as a drug wholesaler and billing service – and as a way for physicians to maximize profits on workers’ compensation and personal-injury-protection patients through the use of topical...
#16 Massachusetts High Court Orders Workers’ Comp Trust Fund Payments
Jul 3 2025 // In two separate rulings, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has found that an insurer in runoff and the state’s insolvency fund were both wrongly denied certain payments they are entitled from the state’s...
#17 Massachusetts High Court Upholds Workers’ Comp for Utility Worker’s COVID
Apr 16 2025 // An insurer erred in denying workers’ compensation benefits to a utility worker who contracted COVID-19 while on the job, a job the state had deemed as “essential” during the pandemic. The insurer had...
#18 Frito-Lay Employee’s Injury in Hoops Tourney Ruled Out of Bounds for Workers Comp
Mar 5 2025 // A forklift driver for Frito-Lay who injured his achilles tendon playing in a company basketball game is not covered by workers compensation. The Virginia Workers Compensation Commission (VWCC) upheld the denial of benefits...
#19 New York Expands Workers’ Compensation For Mental Health to All Workers
Dec 9 2024 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed legislation to expand workers’ compensation benefits to people who are facing job-related mental health crises. The new law, which goes into effect January 1, 2025, allows...
#20 What’s Next For Workers’ Comp?
May 5 2025 // The workers’ compensation market appears to be doing well again. Ahead of its annual “State of the Line” report to be released in early May, National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) Chief Actuary...
