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  • State: West Virginia
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West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a determination that an administrator unreasonably denied a worker’s claim for injuries from a locker falling on her.

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  • State: California
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California's law requiring the Division of Workers' Compensation to suspend providers convicted of certain crimes applies when charges are dismissed after a guilty plea, the

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  • State: Louisiana
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The Louisiana Attorney General's Office said an information technology director for the state's 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals faces multiple charges relating to alleged work comp

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  • State: Illinois
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A divided Illinois Appellate Court ruled that exclusivity shielded an employer from liability for injuries that a worker suffered in an attack by the owner’s mentally ill son.

Case:

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  • State: Arkansas
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The Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a worker’s claim of injury to her back.

Case: Melius v. Chapel Ridge Nursing Center LLC,

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  • State: Missouri
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The Missouri Court of Appeals ruled that a police officer’s incapacitation was the exclusive result of her duty-related injury.

Case: Hauck v. The Police Retirement

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  • State: West Virginia
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West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a 13% permanent partial disability award for a worker’s injuries.

Case: Blackhawk Mining LLC v. Elswick, No. 25-ICA-22,

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  • State: Oregon
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The Oregon Workers' Compensation Division recommends lowering the Workers' Benefit Fund Assessment to 1.8 cents per hour from 2 cents per hour.

The assessment pays for

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  • State: California
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A bill that would have allowed California providers to use independent review to challenge contractual discounts applied to bills was amended to instead require payers to

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  • State: California
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California lawmakers voted to send the governor bills that would extend State Compensation Insurance Fund's discretionary investment authority, allow prosecutors to pursue felony or misdemeanor

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