What Do You Think? Can the cumulative stress of long hours and frequent work travel turn a worker’s fatal cardiac event into a compensable workers’ compensation claim? What if the worker already had significant heart […]

Compliance Corner When an injured worker in Connecticut has to miss work to get treatment for a work-related injury, how does she get paid? What about when the worker has to show up at a […]

Glossary Check Sadly, when a worker dies from a workers' compensation-covered injury, she may leave behind dependents. Such dependents may be entitled to workers' compensation benefits. Under Connecticut law, as Simply Research subscribers know, the […]

Glossary Check When it comes to workers' compensation benefits, in tragic cases, it may be necessary to determine who a worker's dependents are to determine distribution of benefits. As Simply Research subscribers know, Connecticut workers' […]

Glossary Check Determining whether someone is covered or not by workers' compensation law sometimes comes down to whether that someone is an "employee" for legal purposes. Thanks to Simply Research, that information is readily available. […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE In Connecticut, the Workers’ Compensation Act provides the exclusive remedy for employees injured “arising out of and in the course of employment.” This means that employers are immune to their employees’ […]

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 […]

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 […]