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The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission performed the wrong legal analysis in awarding death benefits to the surviving heir of a woman who died in a car crash while delivering supplies for her employer.
Though the commission may have correctly concluded that Grace Keeton's actions were not so reckless as to disqualify her estate from receiving death benefits, the 5th District Appellate Court of Illinois said the intentional misconduct analysis was ultimately irrelevant because she was a traveling… Read more »
A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a jury’s award for a worker with mesothelioma, including an award of punitive damages, against a brewery for violating the state’s "safe-place statute."
Case: Estate of Lorbiecki v. Pabst Brewing Co., No. 2022AP723, 04/15/2026, published.
Facts: From the 1970s to the 2000s, Gerald Lorbiecki worked as a pipe fitter. He worked at many locations over the years, including a brewery owned by Pabst Brewing Co.
The brewery contained miles of… Read more »A federal appellate court ruled that a “year” of employment under the Black Lung… Read more »
A New York appellate court upheld an award of temporary total disability benefits to a worker paralyzed after a… Read more »
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A New York appellate court ruled that a worker should have been granted summary judgment on his Labor Law claim for his injuries from a fall from a ladder.
Case: Escudero v. Belmont Ave 2321 LLC, No. 800463/22, 03/26/2026, published.
Facts: Danilo Veliz Escudero suffered injuries in a fall from a ladder while working on a… Read more »
The Governing Committee for the Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau on Wednesday voted 8-0 to recommend that the California insurance commissioner increase the advisory pure premium rate by 10.4%, effective Sept. 1.
The most notable drivers of the second consecutive double-digit rate increase include increased frequency of cumulative… Read more »
The Assembly Insurance Committee unanimously passed a bill that would permanently allow employers and carriers to use prepaid debit cards to provide workers' compensation benefits.
The committee on Wednesday voted 17-0 to pass AB 1683, which would eliminate the Jan. 1, 2027, sunset date for the pilot program lawmakers in 2018 modeled after the program the… Read more »
Oklahoma lawmakers are sending the governor a bill that would allow employers to implement more restrictive policies relating to their employees' use of medical cannabis.
The Senate on Wednesday voted 41-5 to pass HB 3127, which would allow employers to designate more jobs as "safety-sensitive" positions.
Current law prohibits employers from firing medical cannabis license… Read more »I was talking at length last week with a good friend who works for a large payer, discussing the process of getting the organization to make significant, and very much needed, improvements to its managed care program.
This got me thinking: By no means is this situation unique to that one payer. If anything, resistance to change is a consistent thread throughout the workers' comp payer/buyer/service industry. Pondering this over the weekend, I came… Read more »
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