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Prior to its March 25, 2025 deadline, the Connecticut General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee likely finished up its work for this legislative session and approved a final flurry of bills that would generally...more
Bob Evans Restaurants LLC v. Robert Schriver (WCAB); No. 158 C.D. 2024; filed March 11, 2025; Senior Judge Leavitt - The Commonwealth Court reversed a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, reinstating a judge’s...more
Matthew Grow v. PECO Energy Company (WCAB); No. 63 C.D. 2024; filed January 8, 2025 - The claimant sustained a work injury to his neck in 2013. After he returned to work in January 2014, his benefits were suspended. Later, in...more
Jennifer Jackiw v. Soft Pretzel Franchise (WCAB); No. 3 EAP 2024; decided January 22, 2025 - This case involved a claimant who crushed her arm in a pretzel machine while working for the employer. Eventually, she needed to...more
Since the holidays and the start of the new year, there have been no new New Jersey appellate decisions in workers’ compensation. Below are some of the more notable pending New Jersey workers’ compensation bills in the...more
City of Philadelphia v. Wayne Deloatch and Independence Blue Cross (WCAB); Independence Blue Cross v. City of Philadelphia and Wayne Deloatch (WCAB); No. 541 C.D. 2022 and No. 589 C.D. 2022; Filed Dec. 24, 2024 - Wayne...more
New Regulatory Requirements - Companies with employees in Brazil have until May 26, 2025, to revise their Brazil Risk Management Program (PGR) to include psychosocial risks....more
Last week, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania House Labor and Industry Committee passed HB 183. This Bill is designed to expand significantly what has been long-established access to workers compensation disfigurement benefits...more
On October 29, 2024, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed into law Senate Bill 1232, which amended the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act to require that employers and insurers offer claimants the option to receive...more
Miami Donuts Payroll d/b/a Dunkin Donuts and Liberty Mutual v. Claudia Villarreal, Fla. 1st DCA, No.: 23-0789, November 6, 2024 - The claimant, a cashier, was shocked while plugging in a register at work. She later developed...more
Workers' compensation benefits in New Jersey and Pennsylvania are calculated using a statewide average weekly wage as determined by their departments of labor every year. The year of the worker's injury determines the rates...more
1. The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed an Industrial Accident Board decision that concluded that a COVID-19 workplace exposure at a poultry processing plant did not qualify as a compensable occupational disease. Fowler v....more
1. As the employer/carrier was not able to overcome presumption, a firefighter’s COVID-19, requiring heart transplant, was found to be work-related. Seminole County, Florida and Johns Eastern Company, Inc. v. Chad Braden,...more
1. The Appellate Division addresses permanent partial vs. total disability. Hughes v. Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J. and State of N.J. Second Inj. Fund, No. A-1188-22 (January 30, 2024)....more
1. Commonwealth Court holds that an employer’s failure to reimburse a claimant for out-of-pocket payments for CBD oil is in violation of the Act. Schmidt v. Schmidt, Kirifides & Rassias, Pa. C. (WCAB), 305 A.3d 1137 (Pa....more
Last week, three Appellate Division decisions were made that will affect New York Workers’ Compensation matters: 1. Giesselmann v. Rotterdam Steel, LLC CV-23-1921 . This was a good decision from the 3rd Dept., affirming a...more
According to the California Department of Industrial Relations, California had 680,152 workers' compensation claims in 2023, based upon first reports of injuries. This translates to 3.6 worker injuries per every 100 employees...more
Big New York WC Decision drop today. This week we learn the answers to these questions: Can you catch COVID from working with dead bodies? Is burnout from working at home compensable?...more
From the 3rd Dept on Thursday 11/7/24, there were some relatively good decisions for the defense. Learn more in the blurbs below. In Herrera v. American Badge, a COVID claim was disallowed....more
In this WG Alert, you will find the 2025 Schedule of disabilities chart for New Jersey workers’ compensation claims. The Statutory maximum and minimum for 2025 have increased to $1,159 and $309 respectively. There were no...more
In a bi-partisan effort, both Pennsylvania legislative houses and the Pennsylvania Governor have come together to lower the burden of proof for our Commonwealth’s first responders, when those men and women have witnessed a...more
In an effort to streamline payment of Pennsylvania workers’ compensation wage loss benefits, Governor Shapiro signed Senate Bill 1232 into law on October 29, 2024. Senate Bill 1232 amends Section 308 of the Pennsylvania...more
The 3rd Department released nine new decisions on various cases in New York Workers’ Compensation. CV-22-2159 Matter of Olorode v Streamingedge, Inc. In this case, the claimant tried to increase his loss of wage-earning...more
Key Points: A 20% Fee Agreement applicable to all workers’ compensation benefits, indemnity and medical, is per se reasonable and enforceable, regardless of whether the medical expenses have been incurred or will be incurred...more
Key Points: The New Jersey workers’ compensation statute and applicable case law protects employers’ worker’s compensation lien rights against an injured worker’s third-party recovery....more