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Can Construction Laborer get Benefits for On-the-job Heart Attack?
Can Construction Laborer get Benefits for On-the-job Heart Attack?

What Do You Think? Casper, WY (WorkersCompensation.com). An employee who suffers a heart attack at work may or may not be able to obtain workers’ compensation benefits for the injury. Whether he can secure benefits […]
What is the ‘Idiopathic Fall Doctrine’ in Utah?
What is the ‘Idiopathic Fall Doctrine’ in Utah?

Do You Know the Rule? Ogden, UT (WorkersCompensation.com) – In Utah, for the idiopathic fall doctrine to apply, a condition of the employee’s work must actually aggravate the injury the worker sustains. The presence of […]
Did Shoveling Snow Stop Construction Manager’s Heart – or was it Just Cigarettes?
Did Shoveling Snow Stop Construction Manager’s Heart – or was it Just Cigarettes?

What Do You Think? Montgomery, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A preexisting condition can bar an employee from recovering for an accidental injury at work. But what if multiple factors–not just the pre-existing condition–caused the accident? Can […]
What Makes a Disease Compensable in Delaware?
What Makes a Disease Compensable in Delaware?

Wilmington, DE (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If you read our summary of Fowler v. Perdue Inc., No. 412, 2023 (Del. 06/24/24), you learned that the Delaware Supreme Court found a worker's case of COVID-19 didn't entitle him […]
Do You Know the Rule? N.Y. Presumption of Compensability for Workplace Assaults
Do You Know the Rule? N.Y. Presumption of Compensability for Workplace Assaults

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In New York, it’s presumed that an injury which occurs in the course of work also arises out of employment and is thus compensable under the state’s workers’ compensation law. That […]
What Do You Think: Was Louisiana Renaissance Festival Jouster’s Fall from Horse Compensable?
What Do You Think: Was Louisiana Renaissance Festival Jouster’s Fall from Horse Compensable?

Hammond, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Louisiana exempts from workers’ compensation coverage certain types of employees, including, in some instances, “performers.” The definition of performer, however, is not clearcut.  A case involving a jousting competition at a […]
Is Parkinson’s an Occupational Disease? W. Va. Top Court Says, ‘No’ for Paint Tech
Is Parkinson’s an Occupational Disease? W. Va. Top Court Says, ‘No’ for Paint Tech

Huntington, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To establish compensability in West Virginia and other states, a worker must first establish that he developed a condition as a result of work. And as Gwinn v. Lewis Chevrolet Company, […]
Receiving Medicaid Benefits for Surgery doesn’t Prevent Workers’ Compensation Claim
Receiving Medicaid Benefits for Surgery doesn’t Prevent Workers’ Compensation Claim

Boise, ID (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If someone receives Medicaid benefits to pay for surgery, does that rule out a case for workers' compensation benefits. Not according to Idaho's top court in Thompson v. Burley Inn, Inc., […]