A Texas appellate court ruled that a nonsignatory to an agreement could not compel arbitration of a family’s wrongful death claims despite its purported adoption
… Read more »The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s challenge to the termination of her temporary total disability benefits as time-bared.
Case: Arndt v.
… Read more »The first bill filed ahead of the 2025 legislative session would provide workers’ compensation benefits to Alabama’s public school teachers.
Senate Bill 1, by Sen.
… Read more »The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that an administrative law judge’s order awarding temporary total disability benefits to an injured worker was interlocutory and not appealable.
… Read more »A Texas appellate court revived an injured school district employee’s challenge to an administrative law judge’s determination that she was barred from pursuing compensation for
… Read more »A divided West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the doctrine of collateral estoppel did not bar a worker who failed to prove his occupational disease
… Read more »The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a former coal miner was entitled to an increased impairment award for the worsening of his occupational pneumoconiosis,
… Read more »A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that an employee who injures a colleague must be acting within the course and scope of employment when the
… Read more »The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld an award of benefits for a janitor who contracted Legionnaires’ disease.
Case: Scottish Rite Bodies of Charleston v. Weese, No. 22-0427,
… Read more »The West Virginia Supreme Court clarified the proper method for apportioning preexisting impairments that have been definitely ascertained and impact multiple body parts.
Case: Logan-Mingo
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