What Do You Think? For an injury to be compensable, the employee must be engaging in activities reasonably incidental to employment. What exactly relates to employment can get foggy, however, especially in the school context, […]

25 for 25 in '25 A few years back, the Minnesota Supreme Court took up the question of whether employers had to reimburse for medical marijuana and found that federal law preempting state law and […]

What Do You Think? Timing is often a key factor in whether an employee’s retaliation claim succeeds. Courts tend to place a lot of weight on how much time passed between the claim and the […]

Case File Because an ALJ's decision imputing earning capacity based on the state's minimum wage in 2023 didn't get sent to the parties until 2024, the Appellate Division determined that a revision was due to […]

Case File Although performing CPR on people, including children, who might not pull through isn't beyond what a firefighter might expect on the job, witnessing the deaths of two babies in a 16-month period following […]

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’ […]

Compliance Corner What are the ways that Vermont computes average weekly wage? The answer to that -- and so much more -- is on Simply Research, but we highlight the basics here. 26 Weeks Average […]

What Do You Think? Employers in Pennsylvania must file an answer to a workers’ compensation claim within 20 days of receiving it. But what happens when weather or some other event outside of the employer’s […]