Workers compensation fraud accusations are one of the most aggressive tactics insurance companies and employers use to avoid paying what they owe. This case is about exactly that. In April 2026, I argued a case […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE In Maine, workers’ compensation is an employee’s sole legal remedy for a work-related injury. 39-A M.R.S. § 104. This is the case for all personal injuries and deaths or occupational diseases […]

Case File The Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that physicians' referring workers' compensation claimants to a pharmacy in which the physicians had a financial interest didn't violate the state's anti-referral statute because "prescription drugs" and "pharmaceutical […]

Case File Evidence of a coworker's safety-rule violations and workplace misconduct did not create a jury question on willful and wanton conduct where the coworker lacked knowledge of a specific high-probability risk to the injured […]

Do You Know the Rule? In Rhode Island, an employee may preserve the right to sue for negligence by giving her employer written notice at the time of hire that she is reserving the right […]

Case File When a New York City train conductor learned that a passenger on his train had fallen on the tracks and been run over by another train, the Workers' Compensation Board reasonably found that […]

Case File Despite a challenge with misattribution of a doctor's opinion, an ALJ's decision didn't commit an error "so flagrant as to cause gross injustice." Case Graybar Electric v. Starr, No. 2025-SC0204-WC (Ky. 02/19/26) What […]

Glossary Check Sadly, when a worker dies from a workers' compensation-covered injury, she may leave behind dependents. Such dependents may be entitled to workers' compensation benefits. Under Connecticut law, as Simply Research subscribers know, the […]