Workers’ Comp Insurer Joins UPS Crash Lawsuit

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Clear Path Insurance, which paid workers’ compensation benefits to the family of a woman killed in a November 2025 UPS flight crash, was allowed to join the lawsuit Monday as it seeks to recover the benefits it paid out.
The woman was one of 12 people killed at Grade A Auto Parts, where she worked, after the plane crashed into nearby businesses following takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport; 15 people died in total, including the three crew members, with 23 others injured.
The lawsuit names UPS, Boeing, General Electric, and VT San Antonio Aerospace as defendants and is one of more than a dozen filed after the crash. It was returned to Jefferson Circuit Court in July after U.S. District Judge David Hale rejected UPS’s argument that the case belonged in federal court, finding UPS failed to prove its principal place of business was outside Kentucky given key airline and safety executives based in Louisville.

California Senate Bill 1032, which would have required staffing firms to register, pay a fee, and provide proof of workers’ compensation insurance, has been dropped after passing the state Senate Appropriations Committee.
Toby Malara, vice president of government relations for the American Staffing Association, said the bill faced a high implementation cost from a government perspective and had unresolved issues, prompting legislators to drop the measure given time constraints.
Outreach from the ASA and its California branch, California Staffing Professionals, raised concerns about a burdensome information-reporting requirement, doubts that the bill would achieve its workers’ comp compliance goals, and a proposed private right of action that would have let registered staffing firms sue unregistered competitors.
The bill’s original $5,000 registration fee was dropped from the draft, though an unspecified fee would still have been set by the state Department of Industrial Relations; bill sponsor state Sen. Eloise Gómez Reyes did not immediately respond to a request for comment.