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What Do You Think: Did Failure to Lower Cholesterol Doom Cop’s Claim for Heart Disease?
What Do You Think: Did Failure to Lower Cholesterol Doom Cop’s Claim for Heart Disease?

Las Vegas, NV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Police officers in Nevada are entitled to a presumption that their heart disease arose out of and in the course of employment. Insurers and employers, however, can overcome that presumption. […]
Determining Reasonable IME Fees in Iowa Requires Looking at Rates in Relevant Area
Determining Reasonable IME Fees in Iowa Requires Looking at Rates in Relevant Area

Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When it comes to money, what's reasonable in one place might be too expensive somewhere else. As the Iowa high court explained in Mid American Construction LLC v. Sandlin, No. […]
Workers’ Comp 101: COVID-19 Compensability Cases, Pneumonia Precedent, Scottish Reasoning
Workers’ Comp 101: COVID-19 Compensability Cases, Pneumonia Precedent, Scottish Reasoning

Birmingham, AL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In today's What Do You Think feature, the question at hand focused on whether an Alabama CNA could make a case that she contracted COVID-19 from her job, thereby making it […]
Form Focus: N.Y. Carrier’s Request for Reconsideration of Reduction
Form Focus: N.Y. Carrier’s Request for Reconsideration of Reduction

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When an insurer seeks a reconsideration in New York, there's a form for that. It's the C-251.6. Here's how it works. Do you know about Simply Forms? With Simply Forms, we've […]
Twice-fired Parks and Rec Worker’s FMLA Interference Claim Runs out of Gas
Twice-fired Parks and Rec Worker’s FMLA Interference Claim Runs out of Gas

St. Petersburg, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employer’s good faith efforts to respond to an FMLA request can go a long way toward defeating an FMLA interference claim. A case involving a parks and recreation worker […]
Do You Know the Rule? California’s ‘Commercial Traveler’ Rule
Do You Know the Rule? California’s ‘Commercial Traveler’ Rule

Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The general rule in California workers’ compensation law is that an employee is not considered to be in the course and scope of employment while traveling to or from work. Under […]
What Do You Think: Did ‘Double Whammy’ of Heat, Physical Labor, Fuel Roadside Mechanic’s Heart Attack? 
What Do You Think: Did ‘Double Whammy’ of Heat, Physical Labor, Fuel Roadside Mechanic’s Heart Attack? 

Greencastle, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When an employee has a heart attack at work, there is always the question of whether his job activities, rather than his personal habits and physical health, caused the attack.   As […]
Do You Know the Rule? Pa. Compensability of Psychological Injuries
Do You Know the Rule? Pa. Compensability of Psychological Injuries

Pittsburgh, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Not every injury is readily apparent. Some injuries may manifest as depression, anxiety, or PTSD. In Pennsylvania, employees seeking workers’ compensation benefits for a mental injury arising from something stressful at […]