What Do You Think? In Virginia, an “ordinary disease of life,” such as the flu or COVID-19 is not compensable unless evidence directly links it to the claimant’s work. A case involving a nurse whose […]

Case File While a trip to New York to visit family might have boosted an injured worker's mental health, because it wasn't a trip to the doctor, it didn't count as "medically necessary" under Florida's […]

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. Mississippi Code § 71-3-9. This means that the employee may […]

Case File When a Walmart worker got hit by a truck while jogging off the clock in the parking lot, was it a work-related injury and did his acceptance of workers' compensation benefits matter? Simply […]

What Do You Think? New York employees who suffer psychological injuries can obtain workers’ compensation benefits for those injuries. But they generally have to show they faced extraordinary stress at work. A case involving a […]

What Do You Think? When determining disability benefits based on an employee’s average weekly wages, judges typically include salary, commissions, and bonuses. A recent Kentucky Supreme Court addresses whether an employee’s mileage reimbursement should be […]

Case File Evidence that the daughter of a worker developed mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos he brought home on his work clothes, and not from a brief summer job she held, allowed the daughter's estate […]

What Do You Think? The exclusive remedy provision protects employers with workers’ compensation coverage from being sued for negligence by their employees. If an employee dies during work, does that protection always extend to lawsuits […]