Connecticut Work Comp News
The latest news about workers compensation in Connecticut.
- The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that a worker’s catastrophic injuries were not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of a vendor’s presumed failure to secure its products to a pallet. Case: Cruz v. Spec…
- Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has approved the creation of a task force charged with studying how administrative processing, medical provider availability and insurer authorization requirements prolong workers' compensation claims for…
- Connecticut lawmakers on Friday sent the governor a bill that would create a task force to study causes of undue delays in workers' compensation claims made by police officers and…
- Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. posted a notice to its website about a data hack in January that exposed information of more than 131,000 people living in Rhode Island. Beacon announced that…
- Healthcare workers and teachers in Connecticut would receive 100% of their average weekly earnings with no cap on the benefit amount if they are unable to work as a result…
- The Connecticut Supreme Court on Monday held that employers are generally entitled to a lien on the net amount of third-party settlement proceeds deriving from a compensable occupational disease, even…
- The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld an award of temporary total disability benefits to a former police officer who became disabled years after he retired. Case: Martinoli v. Stamford Police Department, No.
- The Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice announced that the owner of a janitorial company was arrested and charged with failing to carry workers' compensation insurance for his employees. Edgar Villacis Pinto,…
- Connecticut lawmakers introduced bills that would expand conditions triggering workers' compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder and require a study of the state's system. Lawmakers in 2019 enacted a measure allowing…
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