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What Do You Think: Can Amazon Driver Shot by Masked Assailant Collect Workers’ Compensation?
What Do You Think: Can Amazon Driver Shot by Masked Assailant Collect Workers’ Compensation?

Bloomfield, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It can be challenging to determine whether an act of violence in the workplace “arises out of employment” for workers’ compensation benefits. A New Jersey case illustrates the clues decision-makers in […]
What Do You Think: Was Falling into Hole on Way to Car ‘In Course of Employment?’
What Do You Think: Was Falling into Hole on Way to Car ‘In Course of Employment?’

Kenner, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employee who is done with her work day may not be done with her work day for workers’ compensation purposes. Just because she’s turned off her computer, rinsed out her […]
Do You Know the Rule? Minn. Examinations
Do You Know the Rule? Minn. Examinations

Eagan, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In the North Star State, an injured employee must submit to an examination by the employer's physician if the employer requests it. Here are some other rules regarding examinations in Minnesota. […]
Upcoming Reporting Changes Emphasize Importance of Post-Settlement Workers’ Compensation MSA Administration
Upcoming Reporting Changes Emphasize Importance of Post-Settlement Workers’ Compensation MSA Administration

Shawn Deane General Counsel & Vice President of Claims Solutions | J29 Shawn.Deane@j29inc.com   As previously reported on in www.workerscompensation.com, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) plans to implement Sec. 111 reporting requirements relative […]
Do You Know the Rule? Mich. Limitation of Liability
Do You Know the Rule? Mich. Limitation of Liability

Detroit, MI (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A Michigan rule spells out that no compensation shall be payable for an occupational disease if the employee at the time of entering into the employment of the employer by whom […]
Do You Know the Rule? N.Y. Presumption of Compensability for Workplace Assaults
Do You Know the Rule? N.Y. Presumption of Compensability for Workplace Assaults

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In New York, it’s presumed that an injury which occurs in the course of work also arises out of employment and is thus compensable under the state’s workers’ compensation law. That […]
What Do You Think: Was Louisiana Renaissance Festival Jouster’s Fall from Horse Compensable?
What Do You Think: Was Louisiana Renaissance Festival Jouster’s Fall from Horse Compensable?

Hammond, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Louisiana exempts from workers’ compensation coverage certain types of employees, including, in some instances, “performers.” The definition of performer, however, is not clearcut.  A case involving a jousting competition at a […]
Iowa Top Court Clarifies that Vascular Disease Not Per Se Injury to Body as Whole
Iowa Top Court Clarifies that Vascular Disease Not Per Se Injury to Body as Whole

Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In workers' compensation law, administrative bodies are tasked with applying case law precedent to the best of their interpretive abilities, but sometimes it leads to interpretations that need clearing up. […]