Compliance Corner When it comes to workers' compensation payments, injured workers and employers are probably most interested in when and how payments are due. Thanks to Simply Research, we take a look at the rules […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE In Vermont, workers’ compensation is an employee’s sole legal remedy for a work-related injury. 21 V.S.A. § 622. This means that an injured employee cannot sue his employer in tort for […]

What Do You Think? Prior to June 2025, it was harder in New York for claimants to obtain benefits for PTSD. Essentially, they had to show that extraordinary stress at work caused the condition. A […]

Compliance Corner Did you know that Tennessee sets out excess insurance rules for employers covered by the Volunteer State's workers' compensation law? As Simply Research subscribers know, those rules are as follows. The Basics In […]

Do You Know the Rule? In Rhode Island, an employee may preserve the right to sue for negligence by giving her employer written notice at the time of hire that she is reserving the right […]

Case File When a New York City train conductor learned that a passenger on his train had fallen on the tracks and been run over by another train, the Workers' Compensation Board reasonably found that […]

Case File Despite a challenge with misattribution of a doctor's opinion, an ALJ's decision didn't commit an error "so flagrant as to cause gross injustice." Case Graybar Electric v. Starr, No. 2025-SC0204-WC (Ky. 02/19/26) What […]

Glossary Check If you had to tell someone how Georgia defines "injury" for purposes of state workers' compensation law, what would you tell them? If you had Simply Research, you could tell them the following. […]