Case File An insurer in "run-off" sought to collect second-injury trust fund reimbursements for payments it made to an injured worker, but the trust fund contended that the insurer was a nonparticipant and so could […]

Case File When a retired firefighter realized that her health insurance benefits had run out due to her disability, she sued under the ADA but ran into a roadblock on the issue of whether she […]

Case File When it comes to latent disease cases, the Washington Supreme Court did away with a decade-old precedent case to hold that an employer's virtual certainty that disease will occur satisfies the "actual knowledge" […]

Case File A worker lost his life due to an accident while working on the New Jersey turnpike, but the court didn't find enough to show that the employer committed "willful" violations for purposes of […]

Courts & Compliance Like quite a few states across the country, New Jersey's Workers' Compensation Act contains an exclusive remedy provision under which employees relinquish their right to pursue common-law remedies -- in other words, […]

What Do You Think? In Arkansas, depending on an injured worker's age, education, and experience, she may be entitled to permanent partial disability benefits in excess of her percentage of permanent physical impairment. A recent case […]

Case File A railroad worker fell on to the tracks while trying to board a moving train when he bumped in a sign that was too close under state law, but the trial court erred […]

On May 29, 2025, the Supreme Court of Washington, in Cockrum v. C.H. Murphy/Clark-Ullman, Inc., revised the standard that applies when employees afflicted by latent diseases seek to hold their employers liable outside of the workers […]