Court Case Update, Federal - June 2022 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase_Update-Federal-June2022.aspx | Court Case Update, Federal - June 2022 | NCCI Insights | | June 28, 2022 | The US Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a 2018 Washington WC statute that created a presumption of compensability for certain types of diseases contracted by federal contractors working at a nuclear cleanup site. | Article |
Court Case Update, Iowa - June 2022 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase_Update-IA-June2022.aspx | Court Case Update, Iowa - June 2022 | NCCI Insights | | June 10, 2022 | The Supreme Court of Iowa clarified the standard to be used to determine whether an emergency dispatcher’s mental injury is compensable in workers compensation. | Article |
Court Case Update, Kansas and Wisconsin - May 2022 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase_Update-KS-WI-May2022.aspx | Court Case Update, Kansas and Wisconsin - May 2022 | NCCI Insights | | May 24, 2022 | NCCI provides an update on decisions in Kansas and Wisconsin that may impact workers compensation in those states. | Article |
Court Case Update, Florida - March 2022 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-FL-Mar2022.aspx | Court Case Update, Florida - March 2022 | NCCI Insights | | March 24, 2022 | The Florida First District Court of Appeal ruled on a case involving the interpretation of the going-and-coming and the traveling employee provisions of the state’s WC statutes. | Article |
Court Case Update Retrospective: 2018-2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-Retrospective-2018-2021.aspx | Court Case Update Retrospective: 2018-2021 | NCCI Insights | | March 07, 2022 | This article provides a breakdown of workers compensation-related topics addressed in the nearly 200 cases that NCCI has reported on from 2018 to 2021. | Article |
Court Case Update, Texas - March 2022 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-TX-Mar2022.aspx | Court Case Update, Texas - March 2022 | NCCI Insights | | March 01, 2022 | A Texas federal district court held that exclusive remedy barred a tort lawsuit brought by the estate and family of an employee who contracted and died of COVID-19. | Article |
Court Case Update, Texas - February 2022 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-TX-Feb2022.aspx | Court Case Update, Texas - February 2022 | NCCI Insights | | February 09, 2022 | The Court of Appeals of Texas ruled that the Airline Deregulation Act does not preempt the balance billing prohibition in Texas Workers’ Compensation Act. | Article |
Court Case Update, New Mexico - February 2022 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-NM-Feb2022.aspx | Court Case Update, New Mexico - February 2022 | NCCI Insights | | February 02, 2022 | The New Mexico Court of Appeals held unconstitutional WC statutes that limited the duration of benefits for secondary mental impairments. | Article |
Court Case Update, Illinois - January 2022 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-IL-Jan2022.aspx | Court Case Update, Illinois - January 2022 | NCCI Insights | | January 26, 2022 | The Illinois Supreme Court clarified the application of WC exclusive remedy protection for a general contractor that is not the immediate employer of an injured employee. | Article |
Court Case Update, California and Pennsylvania - January 2022 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-Jan2022.aspx | Court Case Update, California and Pennsylvania - January 2022 | NCCI Insights | | January 21, 2022 | NCCI provides an update on decisions in California and Pennsylvania that may impact workers compensation in those states. | Article |
Court Case Update, Pennsylvania - December 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-Dec2021.aspx | Court Case Update, Pennsylvania - December 2021 | NCCI Insights | | December 14, 2021 | A federal district court in Pennsylvania ruled that WC exclusive remedy barred a lawsuit brought against an employer’s parent company by the widow of an employee who died of COVID-19. | Article |
Court Case Update Pennsylvania and Missouri - December 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCaseUpdate-2021-PA-MO.aspx | Court Case Update Pennsylvania and Missouri - December 2021 | NCCI Insights | | December 02, 2021 | NCCI provides an update of two supreme court decisions in Pennsylvania and Missouri that may impact workers compensation in those states. | Article |
Court Case Update, Countrywide - November 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-Countrywide-Nov2021.aspx | Court Case Update, Countrywide - November 2021 | NCCI Insights | | November 02, 2021 | NCCI’s Court Case Update provides a look at some of the cases and decisions monitored by NCCI’s Legal Team that may impact workers compensation across the states. | Article |
Court Case Update, Minnesota and New Hampshire - October 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-Oct2021.aspx | Court Case Update, Minnesota and New Hampshire - October 2021 | NCCI Insights | | October 19, 2021 | NCCI provides an update of two state supreme court WC decisions in Minnesota regarding marijuana reimbursement, and compensability of death by suicide in New Hampshire. | Article |
Court Case Update, Mississippi - September 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-Sept2021.aspx | Court Case Update, Mississippi - September 2021 | NCCI Insights | | September 13, 2021 | The Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission found that a claimant failed to present substantial evidence to establish a causal connection between the contraction of COVID-19 as work related. | Article |
Court Case Update, Federal - August 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-Aug2021.aspx | Court Case Update, Federal - August 2021 | NCCI Insights | | August 10, 2021 | The federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the federal Airline Deregulation Act expressly preempts the Texas Workers Compensation Act regulating of price restrictions as applied to the reimbursement of air ambulance providers. | Article |
Court Case Update, Maryland - August 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCaseUpdate-August2021-Maryland.aspx | Court Case Update, Maryland - August 2021 | NCCI Insights | | August 02, 2021 | The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland ruled, for the first time, that the offset in Maryland statute LE § 9-610(a)(1) applies to permanent total or permanent partial wc benefits for injuries related to the same employment. | Article |
Court Case Update, Florida - June 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCaseUpdate-June2021-Florida.aspx | Court Case Update, Florida - June 2021 | NCCI Insights | | July 02, 2021 | A Florida appellate court ruled that medical marijuana is not reimbursable in workers compensation and a referral to a physician authorized to prescribe medical marijuana is not medically necessary. | Article |
Court Case Update, Colorado and Arkansas - June 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCaseUpdate-June2021-Colorado-Arkansas.aspx | Court Case Update, Colorado and Arkansas - June 2021 | NCCI Insights | | June 23, 2021 | NCCI provides an update of workers compensation decisions in Colorado regarding apportionment and benefit caps, and reimbursement of marijuana in Arkansas. | Article |
Court Case Update, Kansas - June 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCaseUpdate-June2021-Kansas.aspx | Court Case Update, Kansas - June 2021 | NCCI Insights | | June 11, 2021 | Kansas Workers Compensation Board recently found that a claimant’s contraction of COVID-19 from a treating WC medical provider was work related and compensable. | Article |
Court Case Update, Idaho - May 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCaseUpdate-May2021-Idaho.aspx | Court Case Update, Idaho - May 2021 | NCCI Insights | | May 10, 2021 | The Idaho Supreme Court ruled, as a matter of first impression, that delivery services ancillary to a contract for sale of goods do not automatically create statutory employer relations in WC. | Article |
Court Case Update Countrywide - April 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCase-Update-Apr2021.aspx | Court Case Update Countrywide - April 2021 | NCCI Insights | | April 27, 2021 | NCCI’s Court Case Update provides a look at some of the cases and decisions monitored by NCCI’s Legal Team that may impact workers compensation across the states. | Article |
Court Case Update, Montana and Missouri - April 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCaseUpdate-April2021-Montana-Missouri.aspx | Court Case Update, Montana and Missouri - April 2021 | NCCI Insights | | April 23, 2021 | NCCI provides an update of two court decisions in Missouri and Montana that may impact workers compensation in those states. | Article |
Court Case Update, New Jersey - April 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCaseUpdate-April2021-NewJersey.aspx | Court Case Update, New Jersey - April 2021 | NCCI Insights | | April 14, 2021 | The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that an employer was required to reimburse a claimant’s medical marijuana use as workers compensation treatment. | Article |
Court Case Update, New York - March 22, 2021 | | https://www.ncci.com/Articles/Pages/Insights_CourtCaseUpdate-March222021-NewYork.aspx | Court Case Update, New York - March 22, 2021 | NCCI Insights | | March 22, 2021 | New York Workers’ Compensation Board recently found that a claimant failed to establish that his contraction of COVID-19 arose out of his employment. | Article |