By Rayford Taylor  Florida’s Appellate Court Reinterprets the Statute Of Limitations in Workers’ Compensation Cases to Require Carriers to Maintain “Two Clocks” On Every Claim To Successfully Assert Such A Defense.  Estes v. Palm Beach County School Dist., 1D2025-0079, (1st DCA March […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE In Georgia, workers’ compensation is an employee’s exclusive legal remedy for work-related injuries. O.C.G.A. § 34-9-11. This means that an injured employee cannot sue his employer in tort for monetary damages, […]

What Do You Think? A case involving a customer service agent for the New York City subway system highlights how the standard for compensability of psychological injuries has changed, and hints at the types of […]

What Do You Think? Even when an employee is not on the clock and nowhere near the office when she's injured, she may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. That can happen, for instance, if […]

Compliance Corner Did you know that workers' compensation fraud in New York is a felony? Simply Research subscribers do because they have access to the following rules regarding misrepresentation in Empire State claims. The Basics […]

What Do You Think? Employees injured on their way to work generally can’t obtain workers’ compensation benefits. But that's not always true. A case involving a Harrah’s dealer who fell over a forklift shows how […]

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 […]