The Superior Court of Rhode Island upheld a denial of an accidental disability retirement pension to a dental assistant for her needle-stick injury.
Case: Reardon
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A divided New York appellate court revived a worker’s Labor Law claim for his foot injury.
Case: Powell v. City of New York, No. 159841/18,
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The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld an award of benefits to an injured plumber for an infection that developed after he scraped his hand at
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker appointed Kisa P. Sthankiya to serve on the Workers’ Compensation Commission Review Board.
Kisa P. Sthankiya
Sthankiya is
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The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected a worker’s request to have her total disability status reinstated as of the date of her impairment rating evaluation rather
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A New York appellate court ruled that the defendants in a Labor Law case were not entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s claims based on their
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A New York appellate court upheld the partial dismissal of a worker’s Labor Law claim for his slip-and-fall accident.
Case: Dyszkiewicz v. City of New
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The New Jersey Office of the State Comptroller said in a follow-up report that the Division of Risk Management failed to implement work comp claims
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A divided Michigan Supreme Court revived an injured die press operator’s intentional tort claim against his employer, finding summary judgment had been issued prematurely before
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited a New Jersey construction contractor $333,000 for allegedly defying federal safety regulations by exposing workers to potentially deadly
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