Compliance Corner Quick: You're in Oregon and you need to know whether a certain medical benefit is covered under the state's workers' compensation law. Thanks to a Simply Research Compliance Summary, that info could be […]

Compliance Corner When it comes to what Garden State employers must report when a worker gets hurt on the job, New Jersey law spells out specific requirements that Simply Research subscribers have access to and […]

Case File When is COVID compensable in Kentucky? According to the commonwealth's top court, only when the claimant "clearly establishes" that the risk of contracting the disease is increased by the nature of the employment […]

What Do You Think? Employees who are fired because they are taking workers’ compensation leave can sue their employers for retaliation. As one case shows, an employer’s comments prior to the termination, when combined with […]

Glossary Check Depending on the circumstances, a make-or-break component in a workers' compensation claim can be whether the injured person in question was an "employee" under the state's workers' compensation law. As Simply Research subscribers […]

Compliance Corner As Simply Research subscribers know, in Georgia, workers’ compensation does not provide benefits for an injury or accident resulting from an employee’s willful misconduct (i.e. fighting, horseplay, willful act of third party for […]

Glossary Check Is it possible to "fix" an injured worker? According to workers' compensation law in the State of Washington -- as Simply Research subscribers know -- in a manner of speaking, yes. Here's how […]

Case File A worker had a preexisting knee problem that was asymptomatic, but the pain he experienced after a workplace injury meant that he had a viable workers' compensation claim for treatment. Simply Research subscribers […]