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Do You Know the Rule? Ill. Workers’ Right to PTSD Benefits
Do You Know the Rule? Ill. Workers’ Right to PTSD Benefits

Springfield, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Employers in Illinois may be responsible for paying workers’ compensation benefits for an employee with PTSD, but only under certain conditions. First, as with all injuries eligible for workers’ compensation benefits, […]
Do You Know the Rule? Ariz’s Presumption of Occupational Disease for Firefighters
Do You Know the Rule? Ariz’s Presumption of Occupational Disease for Firefighters

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Beginning in 2001, the Arizona Legislature made it easier for firefighters (and fire investigators) seeking workers’ compensation to show that their job as a firefighter caused their cancer. Presumption of Occupational […]
Walmart Night-stocker Can’t Show Chest Pain Came from Moving 2,000-lb Pallet
Walmart Night-stocker Can’t Show Chest Pain Came from Moving 2,000-lb Pallet

Chandler, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employers should put forth solid medical evidence and their best arguments supporting that evidence during a workers’ compensation hearing. As a case involving a Walmart night stocker shows, if there are […]
What Do You Think: May Worker Struck by Car in Parking Lot Sue for Personal Injury?
What Do You Think: May Worker Struck by Car in Parking Lot Sue for Personal Injury?

Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Generally, Georgia’s exclusivity provision prevents an employee from suing a coworker for negligence if the injury occurred while the coworker was acting in the course of employment. But what if the […]
Do You Know the Rule? Compensation in N.Y. for a Workplace Assault
Do You Know the Rule? Compensation in N.Y. for a Workplace Assault

Albany, NY (workerscompensation.com) -- When an employee is assaulted at work, most employers hope to show that the victim’s injuries are covered under the state’s workers’ compensation act. That way, workers’ compensation is the victim’s […]
Testimony that Landscaper Fabricated Injury Clips Workers’ Comp Claim 
Testimony that Landscaper Fabricated Injury Clips Workers’ Comp Claim 

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As long as there is evidence to support an ALJ’s denial of workers’ compensation benefits to an employee, a court is unlikely to overturn it.  That was the case in Cole […]
Laborer Fails to Connect Ballooning Testicle, Hernia to Work Duties
Laborer Fails to Connect Ballooning Testicle, Hernia to Work Duties

Benwood, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) – When there’s reason to suspect a worker’s injury report is more akin to a work of fiction, it helps to have witnesses’ statements that were created on the day of or […]
Compliance Analysis: N.Y. Voluntary Withdrawal from Labor Market
Compliance Analysis: N.Y. Voluntary Withdrawal from Labor Market

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Generally, a claimant who voluntarily withdraws from the labor market is not entitled to workers' compensation benefits. The claimant will have to demonstrate that her disability caused or contributed to the […]