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A Pennsylvania appellate court on Friday reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit by a former refuse worker who claimed his cannabis-related firing was improper because he possessed a valid medical marijuana card.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated a pair of widely used industrial chemicals as hazardous substances under the country’s Superfund program, accelerating a crackdown on toxic compounds known as “forever chemicals.”

A trial judge improperly applied a contingency fee multiplier that resulted in increased attorneys fees awarded to a claimant’s lawyer in a workers compensation case, a Florida appellate court ruled Friday.

The city of San Francisco is suing the nearby city of Oakland over the latter’s plan to modify its airport name to include “San Francisco,” arguing that the proposed name infringes on its trademark and would “cause confusion and chaos,” according to ABC News.

Three former managers in a workers compensation department in Zurich North America’s Rancho Cordova, California, branch have been awarded a total of $80,252,412 in compensatory and punitive damages by a jury that found the company had wrongfully terminated them for taking unofficial paid time off, according to the firm that represented them.

Zurich North America this week reassigned responsibilities among three of its senior middle-market executives.

Mergers and acquisitions among insurance brokers and agents declined 18% in the first quarter, falling to the lowest level of deals since the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, according to a report released Friday by Optis Partners LLC.

The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Thursday it fined a construction company $371,100 following a worker’s death in a trench collapse at a San Francisco job site in September 2023.

The insurance industry is poised to benefit from the use of artificial intelligence, but adopters of the technology must stay vigilant against misuse and keep up to date on regulatory developments, experts said during a roundtable discussion on Thursday.

Executive moves and changes are much in the news this week. Also of note: Q1 earnings season is underway.

Ramona Tanabe, president and CEO of the Workers Compensation Research Institute, talks about fee schedules in workers comp.