Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

State Snapshot BASIC RULE Workers’ compensation is an employee’s exclusive remedy for injuries that arise out of employment and occur in the course of employment. Ind. Code § 22-3-2-6. This means that the employee cannot […]

Safety at Work Fresno, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Police and postal officials reported two attacks on mail carriers in one week in the Fresno, Calif., area this month. The attacks indicate a disturbing trend in that […]

Safety at Work Brunswick, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – An Ohio worker was found dead in a trash compactor after his wife raised the alarm about his disappearance. According to Brunswick Ohio police, Andrew “Andy” Strand, 35, […]

Compliance Corner Working with wage loss benefits in Michigan requires following rules, which appear on Simply Research and are highlighted here. How Michigan Determines Wage Loss Benefits In Michigan, disability and wage loss are established, […]

Quick Hits As Simply Research readers know, a key step in whether a worker has a workers' compensation claim is determining whether the injury arose out of and in the course of the worker's employment. […]

What Do You Think? Employees seeking workers’ compensation benefits may sometimes feel their injury is compensable simply because it happened at work during work hours. But as a case involving a seamstress for law enforcement […]

What Do You Think? In Ohio, as in many states, employees cannot obtain workers’ compensation benefits if their intoxication caused them to get injured. A case involving a vacuum packaging line associate who got his […]

The Case Manager One thing I realized as I progressed through my treatment for a central nervous system lymphoma in 2014 was the loss of control I had over my life. I no longer felt in control of my life as it revolved around lab tests, […]