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What Do You Think? An employee can have a compensable claim when he was injured doing an ordinary activity at work that is not really job-related–such as walking. But he'll generally have to show that […]

A number of factors can raise or quell suspicions that an employer terminated an employee in retaliation for filing a workers’ compensation claim. A case involving a property manager highlights some of the actions that […]

What Do You Think? For an injury to be compensable, the employee must be engaging in activities reasonably incidental to employment. What exactly relates to employment can get foggy, however, especially in the school context, […]

What Do You Think? Timing is often a key factor in whether an employee’s retaliation claim succeeds. Courts tend to place a lot of weight on how much time passed between the claim and the […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE In Connecticut, the Workers’ Compensation Act provides the exclusive remedy for employees injured “arising out of and in the course of employment.” This means that employers are immune to their employees’ […]

What Do You Think? The FMLA protects pregnant workers by guaranteeing them 12 weeks of job protection to take care of newborns. But those protections don’t apply to every employee for every company. A case […]