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 […]

Federal Focus Because a federal worker received workers' compensation benefits, she wasn't able to "double dip," so to speak, and also receive interim relief payments after her removal from an Army position. Simply Research subscribers […]

Case File In Utah, when an employer or insurance carrier seek reimbursement and offset on a worker's third-party tort action, does the proportionate share of legal expenses include past and future benefits? Simply Research subscribers […]

BASIC RULE Workers’ compensation is an employee’s exclusive remedy for injuries that arise out of employment and occur in the course of employment. KRS 342.690(1). This means that the employee cannot sue the employer in […]

What Do You Think? In most cases, only injuries that happen during, or just before or after, an employee’s work hours are compensable. But what if an employee shows up really early and gets injured? […]