Compliance Corner In Vermont, if an employee is engaging in recreational activities with her employer and gets hurt, is it compensable? As Simply Research subscribers know, the Green Mountain State has rules to decide when […]

What Do You Think? The exclusive remedy rule protects employers from personal injury lawsuits by limiting most injured employees to workers’ compensation benefits. In Louisiana, and other states, employees can skirt that rule by showing […]

What Do You Think? New York's exclusive remedy rule protects employers from most tort lawsuits. But what happens when the worker sues an entity that has a different name but is intimately connected to the […]

Federal Focus Because a federal worker failed to submit rationalized medical evidence establishing a causal link between her accepted injury and her requested prescription medication, ECAB found that OWCP properly denied authorization. Case B.V. and […]

Case File A pharmacy technician's settlement with Walmart, Inc. involved the same subject matter as her claim against the Second Injury Fund and “constitute[d] a final bar to any further rights arising under” the Iowa […]

Bits & Pieces What happens in Pennsylvania if a worker's goofing off is the reason he got hurt on the job? Is the injury still compensable? As Simply Research subscribers know, the Keystone State has […]

Compliance Corner When it comes to accepting or denying claims in Wyoming, state law sets out the rules and procedures for how an acceptance or denial happens and what notice must go along with it. […]

Compliance Corner Recognizing that limited education and advancing age impact anemployee’s post-injury earning capacity, an education and age factor,when applicable, shall be added to the income benefit multiplier. As Simply Research subscribers know, the multipliers […]