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Delaware Industrial Accident Board Rules Claimant is an Actually Displaced Worker Following Job Search Evaluation

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Frances Carr v. Amazon.com Services, IAB No. 1540462 (Feb. 25, 2025) - In Delaware workers’ compensation cases, claimants who are unable to return to their previous jobs due to injury may contend they are prima facie...more

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Claimant’s Appeal Was Insufficient, Workers’ Compensation Judge’s Wage Reduction Stands

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Bob Evans Restaurants LLC v. Robert Schriver (WCAB); No. 158 C.D. 2024; filed March 11, 2025; Senior Judge Leavitt - The Commonwealth Court reversed a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, reinstating a judge’s...more

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Judge of Compensation Claims Abused His Discretion in Denying a Motion to Continue a Final Hearing When the Reasoning Behind the...

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Miami Donuts Payroll d/b/a Dunkin Donuts and Liberty Mutual v. Claudia Villarreal, Fla. 1st DCA, No.: 23-0789, November 6, 2024 - The claimant, a cashier, was shocked while plugging in a register at work. She later developed...more

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The Employers Were Not Required to Reimburse a DHS Lien for the Claimant’s Medical Treatment Until the Medical Providers Submitted...

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Dura-Bond Coating, Inc. v. Ryan (WCAB); No. 1137 C.D. 2023, Filed November 18, 2024; Judge Covey - The claimant suffered amputations of both lower extremities. A workers’ compensation judge granted a Claim Petition and...more

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Worker's Comp Versus Personal Injury in California

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According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, a reported 419,000 private-sector employees in California sustained workplace injuries and illnesses in 2022. Workplace incidents in the state claimed 508 employees'...more

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Appellate Division Finds That Compulsion in an Activity Could Render It a Non-social or Recreational Activity

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Terhune v. Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J., No. A-3206-22 (May 8, 2024) - The petitioner had worked for the respondent since 2007. On December 14, 2013, he reported for mandatory snow duty and as  a result, he had to stay at the...more

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The Turning Tides of Temporary Total Disability Compensation

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This month, the Ohio Supreme Court altered the landscape of more than 25 years of workers’ compensation legal precedent in an employer-friendly decision concerning termination of Temporary Total Disability compensation....more

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Newsletter sociale - Octobre 2019

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Nous vous proposons, dans cette newsletter, de revenir sur les nouvelles règles applicables au détachement de salariés en France, issues de la loi Avenir professionnel du 5 septembre 2018, applicables pour la majeure partie...more

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What Maine Employers Need to Know About 2019 Workers' Compensation “Reforms”

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It was inevitable that some of the 1993 reforms that stabilized Maine’s workers’ compensation market and brought Maine closer to the national average in terms of cost and benefits would be peeled back when the 129th...more

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