Compliance Corner If you wanted to know about the exclusive remedy rule and temporary employees under Utah workers' compensation law, you could find that information on Simply Research. But we decided to highlight some of […]

What Do You Think? For an injury to be compensable, the employee must be engaging in activities reasonably incidental to employment. What exactly relates to employment can get foggy, however, especially in the school context, […]

25 for 25 in '25 A few years back, the Minnesota Supreme Court took up the question of whether employers had to reimburse for medical marijuana and found that federal law preempting state law and […]

Compliance Corner Volunteering and workers' compensation don't typically go hand-in-hand, but rules are made for exceptions, and, as Simply Research subscribers know, there are circumstances in which Utah volunteers for nongovernment entities may be eligible […]

What Do You Think? Timing is often a key factor in whether an employee’s retaliation claim succeeds. Courts tend to place a lot of weight on how much time passed between the claim and the […]

Case File Because an ALJ's decision imputing earning capacity based on the state's minimum wage in 2023 didn't get sent to the parties until 2024, the Appellate Division determined that a revision was due to […]

Compliance Corner When states decriminalize cannabis, there's often confusion on what people can and can't do with the drug. That confusion has the potential to impact workers' compensation claims, as there could be a misconception […]

Case File Although performing CPR on people, including children, who might not pull through isn't beyond what a firefighter might expect on the job, witnessing the deaths of two babies in a 16-month period following […]