Case File Determining which of two methods for calculating average weekly wage for an employee who worked seasonally but might have been able to do more but for her injury required Maine's Law Court to […]

Case File Is an employee who experiences intermittent layoffs due to the seasonal nature of his job a "seasonal" worker under Maine law? Not necessarily, and Simply Research subscribers can read the full text about […]

What Do You Think? When a spouse dies from an occupational disease, the surviving spouse has one year to file a claim for death benefits. Prior to Sept. 28, 2021, that period (the statute of […]

Case File After sustaining an injury from a toppling load, an employee for Lowe's had a somewhat rocky relationship with a doctor treating her, eventually holding up a picture of Jesus and declaring that he […]

Case File The question of whether an employer or the estate of a deceased worker bore the burden of proof on the amount of a lien on the proportionate share of the cost of collection. […]

Compliance Corner Do you know the North Star State's rules for on-the-job training when it comes to workers' compensation and injured employees? If you have Simply Research you do, but we break it down here. […]

What Do You Think? If an employee gets hurt on the way to work, or on the way home, the injury is generally not compensable. But what happens when the employee is hurt on the […]

Compliance Corner Did you know that there are exemptions from workers' compensation coverage in Florida and those exemptions depend on whether the employer is in the construction industry or not? Simply Research subscribers do, but […]