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Friday, October 3, 2025

Bill Proposes $50K Penalty for Failed Challenge to Firefighter Cancer Claims

  • State: Ohio
  • Topic: NORTH
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An Ohio lawmaker introduced legislation that would create a $50,000 penalty payable to firefighters whose employer loses an appeal of a benefit award on a

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Friday, October 3, 2025

WCD Lowers Benefit Fund Assessment

  • State: Oregon
  • Topic: WEST
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The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division lowered the assessment that funds certain benefits for injured workers to 1.8 cents per hour worked.

The Workers' Benefit Fund

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Friday, October 3, 2025

Walters: Strengthen Cal/OSHA or Face New Comp Presumptions

  • State: California
  • Topic: WEST
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California columnist Dan Walters suggested employers need to do more to ensure that the Division of Occupational Safety and Health can enforce workplace safety rules

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Friday, October 3, 2025

Court Overturns Grant of Worker's Motion to Strike Fraud Accusations

  • State: Louisiana
  • Topic: SOUTH
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A Louisiana appellate court overturned the grant of a worker’s motion to strike a carrier’s accusation of fraud.

Case: LUBA Workers' Comp. v. Sears, No. 56,489-WCA, 10/01/2025,

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Friday, October 3, 2025

Supreme Court Upholds TTD Award for Worker's Wrist Injury

  • State: West Virginia
  • Topic: SOUTH
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The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld an award of temporary total disability benefits to a worker for his wrist injury.

Case: Autozone Inc. v. Baker,

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Friday, October 3, 2025

Circuit Court Errs in Setting Aside Commission's Finding on Causation

  • State: Illinois
  • Topic: NORTH
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The Illinois Appellate Court ruled that a circuit court judge should not have overturned a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Commission that found a worker’s cervical

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Widow Not Entitled to Line-of-Duty Death Benefits for Retired Firefighter's Fatal Heart Attack

  • State: Minnesota
  • Topic: Top
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld the denial of line-of-duty death benefits for a retired firefighter’s fatal heart attack.

Floyd Jones joined the St. Paul

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

DWC Holding Quarterly Stakeholder Meeting Oct. 22

  • State: Texas
  • Topic: SOUTH
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The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation is holding its quarterly stakeholder meeting on Oct. 22.

Officials from the division will provide an update on a

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

Exclusivity Doesn't Apply to Restaurant Worker's Death From Anaphylactic Shock

  • State: Illinois
  • Topic: NORTH
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The Illinois Appellate Court upheld an award of $5,782,349.85 for a restaurant worker’s death from anaphylactic shock after he ate a free meal that contained

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Thursday, October 2, 2025

DOL Fines Contractor for Fall, Drowning Hazards

  • State: Georgia
  • Topic: SOUTH
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The U.S. Department of Labor fined a Florida painting contractor $877,220 for safety violations following an investigation into a worker's drowning death.

Jose Garcia Hernandez,

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