Case File An insurer in "run-off" sought to collect second-injury trust fund reimbursements for payments it made to an injured worker, but the trust fund contended that the insurer was a nonparticipant and so could […]

Do You Know the Rule? The Basics on Wage Subsidies To further encourage employers to maintain the employment of their injured workers, a State of Washington employer insured with the department that offers work to […]

Federal Focus A letter carrier set up shop online, making a few thousand bucks along the way, but her failure to report it on a required form meant that she forfeited her federal workers' compensation […]

Case File When a retired firefighter realized that her health insurance benefits had run out due to her disability, she sued under the ADA but ran into a roadblock on the issue of whether she […]

Case File When it comes to latent disease cases, the Washington Supreme Court did away with a decade-old precedent case to hold that an employer's virtual certainty that disease will occur satisfies the "actual knowledge" […]

Case File A worker lost his life due to an accident while working on the New Jersey turnpike, but the court didn't find enough to show that the employer committed "willful" violations for purposes of […]

Case File A New York teacher had some challenges with asthma, but were they enough that he could stop coming to work or did he voluntary remove himself from employment? Simply Research subscribers have access […]

Do You Know the Rule? In Illinois, an employer may face a penalty in amount of up to 50 percent of the employee’s original award if the employer unreasonably fails to pay the employee's workers’ […]