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A Texas appeals court shut down a widow's efforts to recover death benefits, finding that a county's risk management pool is a governmental entity shielded by sovereign immunity and that the attempt to challenge a denial through a declaratory judgment action was a jurisdictional dead end.
Neil Adams, a San Jacinto County deputy constable, worked off-hours as private security at a mall in Houston. He was wearing his constable uniform while… Read more »
A New York appellate court upheld a determination that an independent medical examiner’s report did not need to be precluded from evidence.
Case: Matter of Figueroa v. Sing Sing Correctional Facility, No. CV-25-0451, 04/16/2026, published.
Facts and procedural history: Karen Figueroa worked at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility. She was injured at work in September 2022 when her left arm was hit by a gate while she was attempting to close it.
Figueroa filed a workers’… Read more »West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld the authorization for an occipital nerve stimulator to… Read more »
A Louisiana appellate court upheld an award of benefits and penalties to a worker for her injuries from a… Read more »
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The California Assembly unanimously passed a bill that would permanently allow employers to pay indemnity benefits with prepaid debit cards.
The Assembly on Thursday voted 66-0 to pass AB 1683, with 14 members not casting a vote.
AB 1683 would indefinitely extend a pilot program, created in 2018, that allowed the use of debit cards to pay indemnity benefits. The bill would… Read more »
The California Assembly Appropriations Committee placed a hold on bills proposing to overhaul the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund and to allow injured workers to receive medical treatment during the workday.
The committee on Wednesday sent AB 1576 and AB 2098 to its suspense file, which serves as a sort of holding place for bills with projected costs of $50,000 to the general… Read more »Colorado lawmakers are exploring new ways to allow Pinnacol Assurance to sell insurance in other states without severing ties with its home state, according to a report by Colorado Politics.
Though a ballot initiative and prior legislative proposals involved privatizing the carrier, the latest pitch would just restructure it as a different type of quasi-state agency that's not constrained to writing workers' compensation policies in Colorado.
Pinnacol… Read more »
New York's Workers' Compensation Board recently issued a bulletin touting its accomplishments over the last several years. While it’s hard not to be skeptical of a government agency patting itself on the back, in the WCB’s case, it’s entirely… Read more »
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