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Colorado Lawmakers Were Busy in 2025 – What Employers Need to Know

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Colorado was once again busy this legislative session – and employers need to adjust their practices in order to adapt to some key new laws soon to take effect. We have highlighted below a few of the critical changes that...more

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Commonwealth Court Affirms Denial of COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Claim by Police Officer: E-Time Payments Not Evidence of...

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Terry Stewart v. City of Philadelphia (WCAB); No. 490 C.D. 2024; filed April 15, 2025; Judge Fizzano Cannon - The claimant contends that he contracted COVID-19 in the line of duty. Following his diagnosis, he was...more

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A Case Law Summary: Stewart v. City of Philadelphia (WCAB)

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Stewart v. City of Philadelphia (WCAB), No. 490 C.D. 2024 (Pa. Cmwlth. Ct., April 15, 2025) - By way of brief history, Officer Stewart worked long hours during the COVID pandemic. In the fall of 2020, he regularly...more

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First District Court of Appeal Overturns Attendant Care Award Due to Lack of Specificity in Judge’s Findings

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Girardin v. AN Fort Myers Imports, LLC, Fla. 1st DCA, No. 1D2022-1485, February 19, 2025 - The First District Court of Appeal overturned an award for nonprofessional attendant care because the judge of compensation claims...more

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Commonwealth Court Affirms Denial of Reinstatement and Penalty Petitions in COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Case

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William Bolds v. City of Philadelphia (WCAB); No. 488 C.D. 2024; filed February 25, 2025; Senior Judge Leavitt - A former police officer’s attempt to reinstate workers’ compensation benefits following a COVID-19 diagnosis was...more

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Pennsylvania House Committee Advances HB 183 to Expand Workers’ Compensation Disfigurement Benefits

Last week, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania House Labor and Industry Committee passed HB 183. This Bill is designed to expand significantly what has been long-established access to workers compensation disfigurement benefits...more

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PEO Reporting Requirements Update

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PEOs operating in New Jersey should be aware that S2357 was signed into law in November 2022 as P.L. 2022, c. 120 (“the Act”).The Act went into effect on July 31, 2023. While the Act has not yet changed the reporting...more

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PA Workers’ Compensation Bureau Updates Direct Deposit Form

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Following the recent amendment passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature concerning direct deposit, the Bureau has issued a new direct deposit authorization form, which you can access by clicking here. You must begin using this...more

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NJ and PA Workers' Compensation Benefits for 2025

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Workers' compensation benefits in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are calculated using a statewide average weekly wage as determined by their departments of labor every year. The year of the worker's injury determines the rates...more

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Massachusetts Announces 2025 Updates to Paid Family and Medical Leave and Other Benefit Programs: 4 Steps for Employers

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The Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development has announced important updates to state employment benefits for 2025. The State Average Weekly Wage (SAWW) has increased modestly to $1,829.13 from...more

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Now That They Are Finished: Developments From the 2023 Session of the Connecticut General Assembly Affecting Employers

The 2023 Regular Session of the Connecticut General Assembly, which concluded on June 7, 2023, was not as groundbreaking as other recent legislative sessions, Many far-reaching bills that emerged from committee were not...more

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Latest Developments from the Connecticut General Assembly: The Labor and Public Employees Committee Has Spoken (Part Four-Yes,...

We have written about the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee’s final flurry of activity approving and advancing bills out of committee.  In addition to the bills that we have already summarized, here is a...more

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Work-From-Anywhere Culture: Do Your Employees in Other States (or Countries) Have Workers’ Compensation Coverage?

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Ask any business owner, Human Resources manager, or hiring placement specialist and they will tell you about the challenges of hiring and retaining employees since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. We have all heard...more

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New Laws for New York Employers in a New Year: What You Need to Know as 2023 Unfolds

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After a few years of rapid and expansive change to New York’s workplace laws, involving adjustments to workplace safety, employee pay, benefits, and privacy, there was a noticeable slowdown for the state legislature this past...more

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Top 10 New California Employment Laws Signed into Effect by Governor Newsom

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As we previewed previously, a number of hot-button legislative proposals made it to Governor Newsom’s desk this year – many of which would change the landscape for California employers. For the first time since the COVID-19...more

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A Review of 2020 Labor & Employment Legislation In California

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The 2020 California legislative session led to a number of new laws that already have had significant impact on employers in the state. Employers were barraged with a combination of state and federal pandemic-related...more

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September 2020: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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New California COVID-19 Employment Laws Require Attention

- California has implemented a broad supplemental sick leave law requiring employers with 500 or more employees (and health care employers with fewer than 500 employees) to provide their California workers with up to 80 hours...more

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The California Legislature Is Back in Town! Which Pending Bills (and Executive Orders) Will Impact The Workplace?

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After returning from its hiatus on May 4, the California legislature has wasted no time in drafting a flurry of new bills which will affect employers in the aftermath of the state’s response to COVID-19. While the state...more

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Compromise Reached in Maine Workers’ Compensation Reform 

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Governor Mills has signed into law amendments to the existing Workers’ Compensation Act that are the product of a bipartisan effort to avoid a series of proposed legislation that would have had the very real risk of dragging...more

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Now Trending Emerging Issues and Legislation in Maine Workers' Compensation

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The workers’ compensation landscape is constantly evolving, but don’t worry—we’ve got you covered. In this webinar hosted on April 17, 2019, Verrill Dana attorneys Elizabeth Connellan Smith and Elizabeth Johnston explored the...more

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Clarifies Test for Determining Who is an “Employee” for Purposes of Workers' Compensation...

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held yesterday in Camargo’s Case that a worker’s eligibility for workers' compensation benefits is contingent upon the worker proving that he/she is an “employee” under the...more

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Managing the Interplay Between the ADA, FMLA and WC

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The following description may seem quite familiar to those who deal with employee issues on a daily basis. Your employee, who has a physically demanding job on the factory floor, has been out on leave for an injury that he...more

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The Gig Economy, Independent Contractors, and New York Law

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The gig economy (on-demand work) is a disruptive factor in many industries, including the housing market (Airbnb, Homeaway), transportation services (Uber, Lyft, Juno, Via), delivery services (Postmates, Caviar, Instacart),...more

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