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Injuries Sustained by a Claimant While Commuting Were Not Compensable Under the Act as the Claimant Was Not a Traveling Employee...

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Jorge Martinez v. Lewis Tree Service (Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board); No. 298 C.D. 2023; filed Feb. 8, 2024; Senior Judge Leavitt - The claimant worked as a crew leader for the employer’s tree-trimming business. On...more

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Examining the Boundaries of Medical Payments: Pennsylvania's Supreme Court to Decide on Coverage for Non-Prescription Items for...

The vexing issue of whether insurance carriers, third-party administrators and self-insured employers will be required to pay for a broad array of non-prescription items (for example, over-the-counter medications, dietary...more

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Anchors Away! The Supreme Court Addresses Important Medical Causation Issues in Kluttz-Ellison v. Noah’s Playloft Preschool

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Plaintiff Robin Kluttz-Ellison was the owner of Noah’s Playloft, a preschool in Salisbury, North Carolina.  She had a pre-existing history of right knee problems and had a right knee arthroplasty before her alleged workplace...more

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Superior Court Affirms Decision That Claimant Failed to Prove She Contracted COVID-19 at Work, but Does Not Reach Issue of Whether...

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Hudson v. Beebe Medical Center, S23A-10-002 NEP, 2024 WL 36063 (Del. Super. Jan. 3, 2024). Ms. Hudson worked as a front-line nurse for the employer on its COVID-19 floor in the Fall of 2020. She contracted COVID at some...more

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Appellate Division Affirmed the Trial Court, Noting the Defendants’ Actions Did Not Reach the High Bar to Apply the Intentional...

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Heuman v. Heuman, et al., No. A-1593-21 (Dec. 11, 2023) - The plaintiff injured his right eye while working with a mixer that had been modified, resulting in the loss of his eye and the permanent need for a prosthetic. He...more

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Pennsylvania Court Sets Aside “Red Book” Standard for Workers’ Compensation Prescriptions

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On January 2, 2024, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled to set aside the long-utilized “Red Book” standard for repricing prescription medications in Pennsylvania workers’ compensation claims. The court directed the...more

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New Year, New Obligations in British Columbia to Maintain Employment for (Some) Injured Workers

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On January 1, 2024, changes to British Columbia’s Workers Compensation Act, introducing a duty to accommodate and maintain employment for certain injured workers, came into effect. For details on the rest of the changes...more

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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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UPDATE: Maryland Workers’ Compensation Law Impacted by Three New Bills

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Key Takeaways - SB0071/HB0800 specifies that 25% of the net recovery by a claimant on a claim for workers’ compensation will be subject to execution on a judgment for a child support arrearage. HB0902/SB0839 establishes...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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The Court of Appeals Issues a New Opinion on the Requirements for Extended Benefits Beyond 500 Weeks

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In Betts v. North Carolina Department Of Health And Human Services – Cherry Hospital (No. Coa22-324), the North Carolina Court of Appeals has remanded the case to the full commission for further proceedings, finding that the...more

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Connecticut Expands Workers’ Compensation Coverage for Post-Traumatic Stress Injuries for All Employees

On June 5, 2023, Substitute Bill No. 913 was enacted as Public Act (PA) No. 23-35, “An Act Expanding Workers’ Compensation Coverage for Post-Traumatic Stress Injuries for All Employees.”...more

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Pennsylvania Legislature Considers Changes to Workers’ Compensation Disfigurement Benefits

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The Pennsylvania legislature is considering House Bill 930, a proposed amendment to the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act (the “Act”). If passed, the proposed amendment would result in two substantial changes to...more

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Affirms Doctrine of Workers' Compensation Exclusivity

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a significant decision this week, enforcing the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act’s exclusivity provision. Franczyk v. The Home Depot, Inc. (Pa. April 19, 2023)....more

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Exclusive Remedy Provisions Under the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act

In Yoder v. McCarthy Constr., Inc., 2023 Pa. Super. LEXIS 36 the Pennsylvania Superior Court recently denied a $5.59 million verdict to an injured worker. When Jason Yoder fell through a hole in the roof while doing repairs...more

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Separate Agreement Does Not Have the Effect of Tolling the Two-Year Statute of Limitations Under the Workers’ Compensation Act

Ocean Wholesale Nursery LLC, the respondent, appealed from an order denying its motion to dismiss Donald Servais's, the petitioner, workers' compensation petition and from a final judgment awarding the petitioner $75,516.00....more

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Delaware Updates Procedures to Terminate Workers’ Compensation Benefits: What Businesses Need to Know

On June 29, 2022, Delaware Senate Bill 315 unanimously passed a floor vote in the State House (having previously passed in the State Senate); when signed into law by Governor Carney, the bill will amend § 2347 of the Workers’...more

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Recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decision Allows Employers to Pull a TNCP and File a Medical-Only NCP

Nationwide among the claims and risk management community, Pennsylvania is known as being a forms-intensive state. But the Commonwealth just became slightly less forms-intensive with the recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court...more

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Where Are We Now in a Post-Lorino World?

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On December 22, 2021, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a decision in Lorino v. WCAB (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), 266 A.3d 487 (Pa. 2021), which generally held that attorney’s fees shall be awarded when an injured...more

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Pennsylvania Finds Exception to Anti-Subrogation Rule

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently adopted the “no-coverage exception” in Arlet v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board. 2022 WL 529350 (Pa. 2022). As most subrogation professionals are aware, the anti-subrogation rule...more

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The Superior Court has Jurisdiction to Determine Issues of Employment

Although not entirely a workers’ compensation case, the Appellate Court recently ruled in favor of a plaintiff involving a procedural issue. The plaintiff was a volunteer firefighter struck by a South Hackensack fire truck....more

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[Webinar] Leave Compliance Alphabet Soup: ADA/FMLA/WC - February 23rd, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET

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Join FordHarrison St. Louis attorneys Karen Milner and Roy Smith as they discuss employer notice requirements and substantive obligations under the FMLA, ADA and worker’s compensation. Topics to be covered include: -...more

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BIPA Claims Not Barred by Illinois Workers Compensation Exclusivity Provisions

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On February 3, 2022, in a unanimous decision in Marquita McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park, LLC, et al., the Illinois Supreme Court (Court) held that a claim for statutory damages for statutory violations of the Illinois...more

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Illinois High Court’s Long-Awaited Decision Holds BIPA Claims Not Barred By Workers’ Comp Law

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The Illinois Supreme Court rejected a potential defense to claims of alleged violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) when it held that the exclusivity provisions of the Illinois Workers’...more

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