What Do You Think? Employers face numerous legal risks when responding to an employee who mentions that he has a disability. One of those risks is that supervisors will respond with negative comments that could […]

Case File While workers' compensation law sometimes covers surprising circumstances, a New Jersey case made clear that an inmate's claim about his barbershop job wasn't within the Workers' Compensation Act's reach. Simply Research subscribers have […]

Glossary Check It's tough to have a workers' compensation claim without an injury, but just what is an "injury" depends on how state law defines it. Such a definition is one of many points of […]

What Do You Think? An employer may face significant liability if a worker can show the employer intentionally injured him. That’s because intentional injuries are generally not considered workplace accidents whose sole remedy is workers’ […]

Compliance Corner Generally, the words "volunteer" and "workers' compensation are mutually exclusive, but there are some instances where a "volunteer" can be considered an "employee" for state workers' compensation law. As Simply Research subscribers know, […]

What Do You Think? Florida's heart-lung statute creates a rebuttable presumption that heart disease is an accident that arose from employment for certain first responders, including law enforcement officers. A recent case involving a prison guard […]

Compliance Corner It seems a basic assumption in a workers' compensation claim is that honesty and transparency are the only way to take care of an injured worker and get business back to usual as […]

Case File A worker struck a manager with a golf cart and had to enter a nolo contendere plea in criminal court for the incident, but was it just horseplay? Simply Research subscribers have access […]