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A Texas appellate court ruled that a trial judge erred in transferring venue for a worker’s personal injury claim.
Gregorio Pimentel filed suit against Maverick Maintenance & Supply LLC, Shon Looker LLC and Shon Looker in a Harris County trial court. Pimentel sought damages for injuries he allegedly sustained when a large tree limb fell on him while he was working on Looker’s property in Karnes County.
Pimentel asserted that venue was proper… Read more »
Del. - Supreme Court Upholds Compensability of UPS Driver's Back Surgeries, Ongoing Total Disability
The Delaware Supreme Court upheld a determination that a parcel delivery worker’s two back surgeries were compensable and that she remained totally disabled while her doctor advised her not to work.
Case: United Parcel Service v. Smith, No. 244, 02/26/2026, published.
Facts: Ashley Smith worked for United Parcel Service. She suffered injuries in February 2022 when she fell off a truck while… Read more »West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals overturned the denial of a worker’s… Read more »
A New York appellate court ruled that a worker struck by a falling object was… Read more »
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The National Labor Relations Board has withdrawn a 2023 standard for determining whether two entities are joint employers of a particular worker, replacing it with a standard from 2020, according to a notice in the Federal Register.
The board in October 2023 proposed a rule allowing indirect and reserved control over terms of employment, including wages, benefits, hours, hiring… Read more »
A Florida man was arrested for allegedly cashing his deceased father's workers' compensation benefits checks, according to a report by WPLG in Miami.
Todd Luis Calderin, 44, was caring for his father and managing his workers' compensation benefits. His father had suffered a serious back injury while working for Hialeah.
Calderin allegedly cashed workers' compensation checks… Read more »Lawmakers in Virginia passed a bill to increase burial expenses and index them to inflation.
The House of Delegates on Monday voted 99-0 to pass SB 771, which would increase burial expenses to $15,000 from $10,000.
Starting Jan. 1, 2028, the bill would require that burial expenses and reasonable transportation expenses for the deceased… Read more »
CopperPoint Insurance Cos. named Thomas Beale as senior vice president and chief information officer.
Beale brings more than two decades of experience with cybersecurity, software engineering, analytics and enterprise architecture to the position, the carrier said.
He started his career as a cybersecurity tester before progressing into senior consulting and… Read more »
Louisiana lawmakers are proposing to make medical reimbursement rates comparable to what workers' compensation systems in neighboring states pay and to adopt national evidence-based treatment guidelines.
HB 819 would require the state to ditch the Medical Treatment Guidelines developed by the Louisiana… Read more »
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