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Does Supervisor’s ‘Weirdness’ Show Nurse Lost Job Because of FMLA Leave?
Does Supervisor’s ‘Weirdness’ Show Nurse Lost Job Because of FMLA Leave?

What Do You Think? Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When an employee sues for FMLA retaliation, one of the biggest hurdles she must clear is showing that her exercise of FMLA rights caused her employer to […]
Did ‘Severe’ Drunkenness Render Fall from Ladder Non-Compensable?
Did ‘Severe’ Drunkenness Render Fall from Ladder Non-Compensable?

Case File Brooklyn, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In New York, when a workplace injury is caused by an employee’s intoxication, the injury may not be compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Act. A case involving an employee […]
Was Deceased Paratransit Driver’s COVID-19 Linked to his Job?
Was Deceased Paratransit Driver’s COVID-19 Linked to his Job?

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As an employer or workers’ compensation carrier in New York, when should you fight a COVID-19-related claim, and when should you not? A case involving a worker who drove sick […]
Supervisor’s Credibility Disconnects Verizon Worker’s PTSD claim 
Supervisor’s Credibility Disconnects Verizon Worker’s PTSD claim 

Case File Work is stressful—sometimes very stressful. But an employee is unlikely to have a compensable claim based on stress alone. Instead, she’ll have to show that stress was out of the ordinary—greater than what […]
Could Fiancee of Ohio Man who Fell through Roof Appeal Dependency Decision?
Could Fiancee of Ohio Man who Fell through Roof Appeal Dependency Decision?

What Do You Think? LaGrange, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Dependents are entitled to seek death benefits under the Ohio workers’ compensation act. But if the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation finds that the claimants are not dependents […]
Was Out-of-State ATV Crash in Course of VP’s Home Improvement Co. Job?
Was Out-of-State ATV Crash in Course of VP’s Home Improvement Co. Job?

What Do You Think? Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To be compensable under a workers’ compensation act, an employee’s injury must occur in the course and scope of employment. Sometimes, an employee’s claim that his injury […]
Can University Close Book on Tort Claim of Worker who Tripped Near Entrance?
Can University Close Book on Tort Claim of Worker who Tripped Near Entrance?

What Do You Think? Cincinnati, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- An employee does not always have to get injured inside the building where he works to be covered by workers’ compensation benefits. One exception to the “coming […]
Could Widow Sue Maine Tavern for Husband’s Death in Beer-fueled Fight?
Could Widow Sue Maine Tavern for Husband’s Death in Beer-fueled Fight?

What Do You Think? Scarborough, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The exclusivity provision in Maine’s workers’ compensation act bars an injured worker, or representative, from suing an employer after obtaining workers’ compensation benefits. One case addresses whether […]