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What Do You Think: Was Walmart Worker’s Injury Description too Fishy to Hook Benefits?
What Do You Think: Was Walmart Worker’s Injury Description too Fishy to Hook Benefits?

Moundsville, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employee may not obtain workers’ compensation benefits for an injury unless he can show it occurred in the course of employment. A case involving a Walmart worker addresses a situation […]
What Do You Think: Was Nurse Liaison’s COVID-19 too Common to be ‘Occupational Disease’?
What Do You Think: Was Nurse Liaison’s COVID-19 too Common to be ‘Occupational Disease’?

Omaha, NE (WorkersCompensation.com) – In Nebraska, an ordinary disease of life that everyone is exposed to, such as the flu, is generally not a compensable occupational disease. But what if the disease goes from being […]
‘Mailbox Rule’ doesn’t Save Conn. Employer from Filing Deadline
‘Mailbox Rule’ doesn’t Save Conn. Employer from Filing Deadline

Hartford, CT (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Sometimes when something has to be "filed" by a certain date, the law will say that dropping it in the mail is good enough to meet the deadline. However, as a […]
Case Lesson: When is a Denial Based on an IME in Oregon?
Case Lesson: When is a Denial Based on an IME in Oregon?

Salem, OR (WorkersCompensation.com) -- For readers fortunate enough to have access to Simply Research, a case popped up on that site last week that has important information on how IMEs work in Oregon. The case, […]
Social Worker’s Evidence Connects Details of Client’s Murdering Someone to Job-related PTSD
Social Worker’s Evidence Connects Details of Client’s Murdering Someone to Job-related PTSD

Minneapolis, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- What does it take for a worker in Minnesota to establish that she experienced PTSD because of her job? That was the question the state's top court faced in Tea v. […]
What Do You Think: Was Parking Lot Tumble after Grabbing Pizza to Go ‘In the Course Of’ Employment?
What Do You Think: Was Parking Lot Tumble after Grabbing Pizza to Go ‘In the Course Of’ Employment?

Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – In Pennsylvania, an injury must arise in the course of employment to be compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Act. That can include a situation where the employee, though not strictly engaged […]
S.C. Top Court Rejects Relevancy of Ergonomics Report on Repetitive Stress Claim
S.C. Top Court Rejects Relevancy of Ergonomics Report on Repetitive Stress Claim

Columbia, SC (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Can an ergonomics report determine whether an employee suffered a repetitive stress injury without any evidence from a doctor to weigh in on the individual nuances of a claim? According to […]
Colo. Worker Shows Head Injury Happened ‘In Course of’ Employment
Colo. Worker Shows Head Injury Happened ‘In Course of’ Employment

Kiowa, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When a worker alleges that he has an injury that happened on the job, one of the first things he'll need to do is show that it happened in the course […]