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Beyond the 500-Week Limit: Understanding Extended Compensation under the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act

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Can an injured worker receive benefits past the 500-week cap in North Carolina? If your first answer was no, then you have come to the right place!...more

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Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: All Things Related to the Compensability of Eye Injuries and Defense of Eye Injury Claims

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Under the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act, the total loss of a member or loss of vision is a compensable injury....more

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Just in Case You Didn't (c) It the First Time

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With respect to workplace injuries, The North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act is a legislative fix to a common law problem. The Act is sometimes called “the grand compromise”  because it was crafted so as to balance the...more

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Pennsylvania and New Jersey Release 2022 Average Weekly Wage Rates

New Jersey and Pennsylvania have released 2022 workers' compensation temporary total disability benefit rates based on the statewide average weekly wage....more

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[Virtual Seminar] Workers’ Compensation & Civil Litigation Law Updates - September 29th, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EDT

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Register Today For Cranfill Sumner’s 2021 Virtual Continuing Education Seminar: Workers’ Compensation & Civil Litigation Law Updates...more

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NJ Supreme Court Strikes Adverse Employment Action Requirement in Failure to Accommodate Claims

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On June 8, 2021, the New Jersey Supreme Court in Richter v. Oakland Board of Education affirmed the Appellate Division’s ruling that an employee asserting a failure to accommodate claim does not have to separately establish...more

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Connecticut Governor Lamont Strengthens Workers’ Compensation Claims for Workers Affected by COVID-19

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On July 24, 2020, Connecticut Governor Lamont issued Executive Order JJJ (“E.O. JJJ”), which creates a presumption that employees who contracted COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic contracted it at work and are...more

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130-Week Cap on Temporary Disability Benefits - April 2017 Reform Implementation

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Among the significant reforms to the Workers’ Compensation Law (WCL) enacted as part of New York’s 2017-2018 Executive Budget, effective April 10, 2017, was imposition of a 130-week cap on temporary disability benefits....more

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Supreme Court Issues New Ruling on Workers’ Compensation Subrogation Reimbursement

In a recent case, decided on June 19, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania granted appeal to clarify the scope of subrogation reimbursement under the Pennsylvania Workers Compensation Act (the “Act”)....more

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