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The Ohio Supreme Court vacated a decision by an appellate court directing the Industrial Commission to consider whether a worker’s adult daughter was entitled to death benefits as a dependent.
Darrell W. Holderman worked as a security officer for Merchant Security Services of Dayton, Ohio Inc. He was shot and killed by a prisoner he was guarding in June 2022.
Holderman’s daughter applied for death benefits. She was 39 at the time and… Read more »
The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that a worker’s catastrophic injuries were not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of a vendor’s presumed failure to secure its products to a pallet.
Case: Cruz v. Spec Personnel LLC, No. AC 46515, 06/02/2026, published.
Facts: Signify North America Corp. sells lighting products. In 2017, it sold a packaged load of lights weighing approximately 1,300 pounds to Rexel USA Inc., a wholesale electrical distributor.
Signify loaded… Read more »A New York appellate court ruled that a worker was entitled to summary judgment on his Labor Law claim, as… Read more »
A New York appellate court upheld the summary dismissal of a worker’s claims for her alleged slip-and-fall… Read more »
News: NORTH
The California Senate unanimously voted to send the governor a bill that would make the option to pay indemnity benefits with prepaid debit cards permanent.
The Senate on Thursday voted 36-0 to pass AB 1683, which would eliminate the Jan. 1, 2027, scheduled sunsetting of the pilot program that allows employers and carriers to use electronic payment cards with the written… Read more »
New York State Workers’ Compensation Fraud Inspector General Lucy Lang on Friday announced that a man was ordered to pay nearly $10,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to fraud.
Thomas O. Malicki pleaded guilty on June 23 to charges that he defrauded the workers' compensation system by stealing wage replacement checks intended for the deceased mother of his then-girlfriend.
That same day, he paid full… Read more »
The New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board is holding its 2026 Workers' Compensation Forum on Sept. 15 in New York City.
NYCIRB President and CEO Jeremy Attie and Julia Stenberg, chair of the board of governors, are scheduled to deliver opening remarks. Avani Shah, executive deputy superintendent of insurance for the New York State Department of Financial… Read more »
Pennsylvania lawmakers are proposing a special fund to cover annual cancer screenings not paid for by firefighters' health insurance policies.
SB 1398, by Sen. Camera Bartolotta, R-Beaver, would establish the Firefighter Cancer Screening Program within the Department of Insurance to pay for the screenings.
Bartolotta said in a statement that though firefighters work in… Read more »As California employers face increasing pressure to control operating expenses, a new actuarial study finds that self-insurance continues to provide a significant financial advantage over traditional workers' compensation insurance.
The study, conducted by… Read more »
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