Connecticut Work Comp News
The latest news about workers compensation in Connecticut.
- The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that a worker substantially complied with the statutory notice requirements for submitting a claim within the filing period. Case: Fieldhouse v. Regency Coachworks Inc., No. AC 44225,…
- The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld the dismissal of a worker’s intentional tort claim against his employer based on alleged injuries from industrial exposure to paint. Henry Lavette III worked for Stanley…
- The Connecticut Appellate Court overturned a grant of summary judgment to an automobile policy provider, finding the workers’ compensation benefits paid to an insured had not exceeded the uninsured motorist…
- The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld the dismissal of an injured worker’s complaints alleging claims of employment discrimination, finding they were more appropriately treated as allegations of bad faith processing of her…
- The Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that the Compensation Review Board properly vacated the findings of a commissioner on the extent and cause of an injured worker’s disability due to her "unorthodox"…
- Medical and indemnity paid to injured firefighters for the City of Norwalk, Connecticut, fell in 2021, the second consecutive year of declining workers' compensation rates for the 140-member fire department. Injured firefighters…
- A Cromwell, Connecticut, woman faces charges that she collected workers' compensation benefits even though she was still working, according to a report by a CBS affiliate on Hartford. Erin Coughlin, 48,…
- Connecticut lawmakers are pushing for workers' compensation insurers and employers to provide timely notification of discontinued prescriptions for injured workers, under a proposal introduced Thursday. SB 222, by the Senate Labor…
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