Case File A worker's death was due to safety lapses on the jobsite, but because his coworkers didn't actually know of the peril. Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text of the decision. […]

Case File An Oklahoma statute directed that employees "shall" be granted "one change of treating physician," but did that mean subsequent changes were against the rules? Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text […]

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 […]

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 […]

Case File A construction contractor's lack of control over a law enforcement officer's work directing traffic around a project meant that it was not the officer's joint employer for workers' compensation purposes. Simply Research subscribers […]

Case File Because teachers were deemed essential employees for purposes of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey, a teacher's contraction of COVID-19, which led to her death, was work-related and fully compensable. Simply Research subscribers […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE In New Mexico, workers’ compensation is the exclusive legal remedy for workplace injuries.  N.M. Stat. Ann. 52-1-6(E). This means that the employee cannot sue the employer in tort (where the employee might […]