Case File A combination of an IME and video surveillance conspired against a worker's efforts to challenge discontinuation of her workers' compensation benefits. Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text of the decision. […]

Quick Hits In Ohio, as Simply Research subscribers know, each employer paying premiums into the state insurance fund or electing directly to pay compensation to the employer's injured employees or the dependents of the employer's […]

What Do You Think? Employers can engage in FMLA interference by taking adverse action, or threatening to do so, in response to an employee’s use of FMLA leave.  That was a laboratory technician’s claim in […]

Compliance Corner Under West Virginia workers' compensation law, no alleged injury or disease may be recognized as a compensable injury or disease if it was solely caused by nonphysical means and did not result in […]

Compliance Corner In Iowa, some inmates are covered under the state's workers' compensation law. While Simply Research subscribers have access to what the rules are for such workers, we take a look here.  Glossary Check […]

25 for 25 in '25 Although an employer was fine with employees taking personal stops on business trips, such latitude for self-care did not extend to doing work for other employers. Simply Research subscribers have […]

What Do You Think? To be compensable, an injury must be caused by the job in some way. A case involving the suicide of a police officer shows how critical expert testimony can be to […]

Do You Know the Rule? In New Mexico, employers and carriers may find themselves on the hook for payments beyond the workers’ compensation benefits they owe if a claimant shows they engaged in "bad faith." […]