What Do You Think? Sometimes it takes a jury to decide whether an employee has established an FMLA interference claim. A case in point involves an employee who worked as a skilled mechanic at a pork-processing […]

What Do You Think? Individuals who work for managed care companies helping claimants navigate the workers’ compensation system may sometimes face harassment by those same claimants. As one case shows, the legal maze such an […]

Case File When a worker received workers' compensation benefits while off of work, it cut against his case that he didn't make an informed election of benefits after losing a finger in an accident at […]

Do You Know the Rule? Let's say a worker sustains a cervical or lumbar spine injury on the job in the Aloha State? Would she need a treatment plan under the state's workers' compensation law? […]

What Do You Think? While the timing of terminating an employee matters when it comes to avoiding FMLA disputes, so do other circumstances. One case shows, for example, how the level of clarity surrounding the […]

What Do You Think? In Arizona, an employer can generally convince a hearing officer to dismiss an employee’s hearing request if the request is untimely. This is the case even when the employer is seeking […]

Do You Know The Rule? The general rule in Pennsylvania is that an employee cannot sue his employer for personal injury arising from his employment.  Pennsylvania’s “personal animus” exception makes it possible to sue for […]

Case File When a Florida teacher sought continuing medical treatments for headaches she experienced after being hit by a student, her employer's failure to contest the compensability of those headaches within 120 days meant she […]