Case File When a carrier accused a bricklayer of concealing prior injuries, the Workers' Compensation Board found the evidence failed to establish that the prior insurance claims actually involved the claimant. Case Matter of Loja-Saula […]

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 […]

Case File While an insurer included handwritten notations on two memoranda of payment identifying concurrent employment wages, the New Hampshire Supreme Court found the notations insufficient to constitute notice of a potential claim against the […]

Key Cases The best workers' compensation claims and the most desired litigated cases share something in common: The people footing the bill tend to like them best when they're over and done with. Thus, settlement […]

Key Cases Under Florida Statutes Section 440.192, an employee may, for any benefit that is "ripe, due, and owing," file with the Office of the Judges of Compensation Claims a petition for benefits which meets […]

Key Cases For those lucky enough to be in attendance at oral arguments before Florida's 1st District Court of Appeals as part of WCI, the Barrett v. Manatee County Sheriff's Office case touched on the […]

What Do You Think? Does two plus two ever equal two? In Illinois, it may. Illinois employers and workers compensation carriers need to know about the “the two physicians” rule. A recent case involving a […]

Case File Because substantial credible evidence supported the compensation judge's finding that the work injury exacerbated the worker's knee symptoms, the Appellate Division affirmed an award of medical and temporary disability benefits. Case Munoz v. […]