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The Mystery of the Overdosing Worker Whose Spouse Sought Death Benefits

Can You Solve the Case? Marion, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A case involving an injured employee who tragically died from a drug overdose in 2016 shows how Iowa’s willful injury defense can go either way when the […]

Could Social Worker Attacked by Family Dog get Benefits for Trauma?

What Do You Think? New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Injured employees in New York may be able to obtain workers’ compensation benefits for a psychological injury. But they’ll have to meet the correct standard, as […]

Was Corrections Worker who Lost Eye Permanently Disabled?

What Do You Think? Newport, AR (WorkersCompensation.com) -- No matter how severe or upsetting an injury may be, a claimant in Arkansas seeking permanent disability still has to demonstrate that she can no longer work […]

Did Nurse’s ‘Plandemic’ Comments Justify Ending Benefits for Long-COVID?

What Do You Think? Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits due to COVID-19 sometimes seek to extend those benefits based on symptoms of “long-COVID.”  It can be hard for doctors to objectively […]

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?

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 […]