What Do You Think? The exclusive remedy rule protects employers who carry workers’ compensation coverage from most personal injury lawsuits. A New York case involving a porter who injured his hand reaching into an elevator […]

By Rayford Taylor  Florida’s Appellate Court Reinterprets the Statute Of Limitations in Workers’ Compensation Cases to Require Carriers to Maintain “Two Clocks” On Every Claim To Successfully Assert Such A Defense.  Estes v. Palm Beach County School Dist., 1D2025-0079, (1st DCA March […]

What Do You Think? A case involving a customer service agent for the New York City subway system highlights how the standard for compensability of psychological injuries has changed, and hints at the types of […]

What Do You Think? Even when an employee is not on the clock and nowhere near the office when she's injured, she may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. That can happen, for instance, if […]

What Do You Think? Employees injured on their way to work generally can’t obtain workers’ compensation benefits. But that's not always true. A case involving a Harrah’s dealer who fell over a forklift shows how […]

What Do You Think? The exclusive remedy rule protects employers from personal injury lawsuits by limiting most injured employees to workers’ compensation benefits. In Louisiana, and other states, employees can skirt that rule by showing […]

Case File Because an ALJ didn’t give enough to indicate how a worker could continue doing her clerical job and be unable to work at the same time, the Kentucky Supreme Court thought it best […]

What Do You Think? A child who is a dependent may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits when a parent dies at work. A case involving a deceased Rite Aid worker with a 29-year-old son […]