The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of permanent partial disability benefits for a worker with a back injury.

Case: Helmandollar v. Blackhawk Mining LLC,

The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the denial of a worker’s occupational pneumoconiosis claim.

Case: Lewis v. Columbia West Virginia Corp., No. 23-616, 09/23/2024, published.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals remanded a worker’s claim for permanent total disability benefits to an administrative law judge for the fourth time because of

West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled that a worker was not entitled to expand the scope of his claim to include additional conditions.

Case:

West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals overturned the closure of a worker’s claim and ordered that additional evidence be developed as to his preexisting conditions