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 […]

Glossary Check Anyone who's been around workers' compensation long enough knows that what words mean can sometimes matter to how a claim turns out -- or doesn't. One of those words is disability, and the […]

Case File The Connecticut Supreme Court stepped in to say that an administrative law judge has discretion to award a claimant, after she reaches maximum medical improvement, ongoing temporary incapacity benefits in lieu of permanent […]

Do You Know the Rule? Telehealth has been going strong in workers' compensation for years and became a go-to during the COVID-19 pandemic. As Simply Research subscribers know, there are some basics about telehealth in […]