Case File While questions swirled of whether a school bus driver had a heart attack before or after he collided with other vehicles, medical evidence was sufficient to support a finding that impact came before […]

Case File A New York carpenter helped his boss wrangle a donkey into a shed and then had a heart attack. Because it was related to the carpenter's job and the employer missed the deadline […]

Case File A firefighter’s heart-rhythm disorders qualified as “heart disease” under Florida’s heart-lung statute, the Florida First District Court of Appeal held. This entitled the firefighter to the statute’s presumption that the injuries arose out […]

Case File While a Kentucky worker had alcohol in his system at the time of an on-the-job accident, he wasn't barred from recovering workers' compensation benefits. Case Safe Zone v. Perry, No. 2026-SC-0141-WC (Ky. 09/24/26) […]

Case File After receiving workers' compensation benefits (even if they weren't as much as she wanted) for injuries sustained in a workplace fall, a law professor was barred from pursuing a negligence action against her […]

Case File When a carrier accused a bricklayer of concealing prior injuries, the Workers' Compensation Board found the evidence failed to establish that the prior insurance claims actually involved the claimant. Case Matter of Loja-Saula […]

Case File While an insurer included handwritten notations on two memoranda of payment identifying concurrent employment wages, the New Hampshire Supreme Court found the notations insufficient to constitute notice of a potential claim against the […]

Case File In Kentucky, an employer is entitled to immediate reimbursement of duplicative workers' compensation benefits, but its recoverable subrogation interest must be reduced by its pro rata share of the employee's attorney's fees and […]