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A divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a determination that triable issues precluded summary judgment on a worker’s tort suit for his injuries from a skid loader accident against the owner of the machine, who was also a co-employee.
John Brown suffered injuries in September 2016 on his first day of work with American Concrete Solutions Inc.
The accident occurred when the arm of a skid loader caught Brown’s body, crushing him between the top of the cab and the arm of the bucket.
The skid loader was owned by George… Read more »
West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals overturned a denial of benefits for a nurse injured in a fall in her employer’s parking lot as she was returning from her lunch break.
Case: Perrine v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, No. 25-ICA-232, 02/03/2026, published.
Facts: Lisa Perrine worked for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services as a nurse. She went to the hospital in June 2024 and reported left wrist pain after a… Read more »The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld the denial of benefits to a worker who failed to present evidence of a… Read more »
A New York appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of a Labor Law… Read more »
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Legislation introduced in Georgia would increase temporary disability and death benefits and revise the process for reinstating benefits when an effort to return an injured worker to employment fails.
HB 1355 would increase the maximum temporary total disability benefit to $900 per week from $800, and it would increase the maximum temporary partial disability benefit to $600 from $533. The bill… Read more »
Connecticut lawmakers introduced bills that would expand conditions triggering workers' compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder and require a study of the state's system.
Lawmakers in 2019 enacted a measure allowing first responders to file PTSD claims for specific incidents, including seeing a dead child or witnessing a traumatic physical injury. In 2023, they… Read more »Legislation introduced in Colorado would require the Department of Labor and Employment to collect data and develop model guidance for preventing heat-related injuries and illnesses.
HB 1272, introduced Thursday, would require the department to start collecting data on temperature-related injuries, illnesses and emergencies… Read more »
New Jersey lawmakers have introduced legislation that would effectively codify a state Supreme Court decision holding that volunteer firefighters injured in the line of duty are entitled to the maximum temporary disability benefit, regardless of whether they had outside employment at the time of injury.
Before the high court handed down its… Read more »
The Florida Senate unanimously passed a bill that would allow first responders to use a preemployment physical examination from a former employer to invoke the presumption that certain heart and lung diseases arose from employment.
The Senate on Thursday voted 38-0 to pass SB 330, which would also revise the definition of "heart disease" for the… Read more »
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