Do You Know the Rule? If you're in the Aloha State and you're considering whether an injury that occurred at work counts as an "injury" for workers' compensation purposes, you can turn to the statutes […]

Do You Know the Rule? Language access services for people navigating the workers' compensation system are required by law in North Carolina. Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text of the statute governing […]

Case File ECAB decided that some of a V.A. worker's medical evidence supported her claims but not all of them. Simply Research readers have access to the full text of the decision. Case P.V. and […]

Courts & Compliance Recently, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court considered what a workers' compensation judge must do at trial and what deference a WCJ's decisions are entitled to on appeal. I the case, Lebanon Transit v. […]

Compliance Corner If you're in Maryland and you're looking for information on calculating hearing loss for purposes of workers' compensation, there are several sources you can turn to. One of those sources is Simply Research, […]

The Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Act is federal law that intersects with workers’ compensation (and other non-group health insurance types) and is statutorily and regulatorily based. However, many of the mechanisms that effectuate and enforce […]

Glossary Check For those who need to work in technical language and get it right, knowing definitions of terms and how they're defined or described under states' workers' compensation laws could come in handy. Simply […]

Do You Know the Rule? As with most other jurisdictions, Wisconsin has statutory provisions regarding what happens when a worker experiences an injury heading to or leaving from the job. That information is available to […]