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 […]

Do You Know the Rule? To be compensable, an injury must occur in the course and scope of employment and arise out of employment. ’Under the street-risk rule, an injury that occurs while an employee is […]

Case File A Massachusetts worker sought reemployment under a preference granted by state law, but did the employer have to comply? The full text of the case is on Simply Research. Case Ledoux v. Bristol […]