Augusta, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If you're thinking about torts and on-the-job injuries, you're probably also thinking about exclusive remedy rules in most states. What an exclusive remedy rule does is prevent someone from suing for […]

Springfield, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It's not uncommon for workers' compensation cases to involve multiple sources of medical evidence that span a period of months or years. But as Harrah's Illinois Corporation v. Illinois Workers' Compensation […]

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When a worker's wrist problems sent him into surgery, did he have enough medical evidence to establish a compensable injury? According to the court in, Johnson v. Industrial Commission of Arizona, […]

Tamaqua, PA (WorkersCompensation.com)–In Pennsylvania, a worker who is not engaging in work activities but is on his employer’s premises and is required by the nature of his employment to be there may be entitled to […]

Goshen, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – In New York, the state’s Worker’s Compensation Law bars fellow employees from suing one another for negligence or wrongful death. As one case shows, however, whether two employees work for the […]

Dayton, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – In Ohio, an employee must clear two hurdles to show that a fight-related injury at work arose out her employment. The city worker in Dayton v. Parson, No. 29353. (Ohio App. […]

Butte, MT (WorkersCompensation.com) -- They say don't mix work and pleasure, but how can you get out of the office parties, company picnics, and inter-department softball games and still make it up the corporate ladder? […]

Minneapolis, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- What bearing could cocaine have on an employee's work-related injury? It depends on whether the employee was "intoxicated" at the time of the accident, and as was on display in Morales […]