An Ohio lawmaker introduced legislation that would create a $50,000 penalty payable to firefighters whose employer loses an appeal of a benefit award on a
… Read more »The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division lowered the assessment that funds certain benefits for injured workers to 1.8 cents per hour worked.
The Workers' Benefit Fund
… Read more »California columnist Dan Walters suggested employers need to do more to ensure that the Division of Occupational Safety and Health can enforce workplace safety rules
… Read more »A Louisiana appellate court overturned the grant of a worker’s motion to strike a carrier’s accusation of fraud.
Case: LUBA Workers' Comp. v. Sears, No. 56,489-WCA, 10/01/2025,
… Read more »The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld an award of temporary total disability benefits to a worker for his wrist injury.
Case: Autozone Inc. v. Baker,
… Read more »The Illinois Appellate Court ruled that a circuit court judge should not have overturned a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Commission that found a worker’s cervical
… Read more »The Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld the denial of line-of-duty death benefits for a retired firefighter’s fatal heart attack.
Floyd Jones joined the St. Paul
… Read more »The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation is holding its quarterly stakeholder meeting on Oct. 22.
Officials from the division will provide an update on a
… Read more »The Illinois Appellate Court upheld an award of $5,782,349.85 for a restaurant worker’s death from anaphylactic shock after he ate a free meal that contained
… Read more »The U.S. Department of Labor fined a Florida painting contractor $877,220 for safety violations following an investigation into a worker's drowning death.
Jose Garcia Hernandez,
… Read more »Oct 24, 2025
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