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Appellate Division affirmed the workers’ compensation judge’s orders, granting the petitioner’s application for Temporary Total Disability benefits and denying respondent’s Request for Reconsideration.
The petitioner was injured in 2018 and resolved her case for 25% partial-total disability in 2021. In 2018, she had returned to work for Complete Care as a certified nursing assistant and, in 2019, as a home health aide for Interim Agency.
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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.
In this case, the claimant, an attorney, sustained a work injury on April 14, 2017, while loading files into a trial bag. Benefits were awarded pursuant to a Claim Petition granted by a workers’ compensation judge.
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Commonwealth Court holds that a truck driver was not subjected to abnormal working conditions from a minor truck fire that was extinguished in two minutes and without physical injury occurring to anyone.
In his Claim Petition, the claimant alleged he sustained Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in February 2015, when the tractor-trailer he was driving caught fire.
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TOP 10 DEVELOPMENTS IN DELAWARE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION IN 2023
1. Supreme Court holds an employer or workers’ compensation carrier may assert a subrogation lien against an employee’s recovery of benefits under an employer-purchased UIM policy, overruling its own precedent, Simendinger v.
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TOP 10 DEVELOPMENTS IN FLORIDA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION IN 2023
1. Death benefits under Chapter 112 (Firefighter’s cancer diagnosis).
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TOP 10 DEVELOPMENTS IN NEW JERSEY WORKERS’ COMPENSATION IN 2023
1. The Appellate Division addresses the abuse of workers’ compensation judges’ discretion in awarding fees, costs and penalties.Garzon v. Morris Cnty. Golf Club, No. A-1100-21 (App. Div. Dec. 23, 2022)
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TOP 10 DEVELOPMENTS IN PENNSYLVANIA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION IN 2023
1. An application for Fee Review is not premature on the basis that treatment is not related to the work injury where a Utilization Review Request has not been filed.
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Angela DeMary (Mount Laurel, NJ) presented on the topic “Assessing the Injury and Case” for the National Business Institute’s webinar “New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Fundamentals” on November 29, 2023.
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