What Do You Think? To obtain compensation for an occupational disease, an employee has to show that she had the condition and that her job caused it. A case involving an emergency dispatcher highlights the […]

Case File A deceased worker's co-employees argued that they could not face a tort claim for the worker's workplace death because they worked for a public employer. The Iowa Supreme Court looked at the definition […]

Compliance Corner Did you know that the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court is not bound by the usual common law or statutory rules of evidence? Accordingly, as Simply Research subscribers know, with respect to medical evidence […]

Compliance Corner It's not news that generic medications typically cost less than their brand name counterparts, but what happens if an injured worker says they have to have the brand and won't do generic? Simply […]

Safety at Work U.S. Steel faces 10 violations and $118,000 in fines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) related to last year’s deadly explosion at the Clairton Coke Works.   The Pittsburgh-based company was cited nine […]

Community Question From time to time, we like to take a question we get from our extended workers' compensation family and turn it over to the human-powered Simply Research Compliance Team as well as our […]

Case File A worker's death was due to safety lapses on the jobsite, but because his coworkers didn't actually know of the peril. Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text of the decision. […]

Case File An Oklahoma statute directed that employees "shall" be granted "one change of treating physician," but did that mean subsequent changes were against the rules? Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text […]