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Did Repeatedly Nudging Worker to get COVID-19 Vax Make Resulting Injury Compensable?
Did Repeatedly Nudging Worker to get COVID-19 Vax Make Resulting Injury Compensable?

What Do You Think? Is an injury from a vaccine compensable even if the employer didn’t require staff to get vaccinated? What if the employer merely encouraged its staff to get vaccinated? Those questions arose […]
Questions about COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement Keep Fed Worker’s Case in Play
Questions about COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement Keep Fed Worker’s Case in Play

Federal Focus ECAB remanded a claim involving an alleged adverse reaction to a COVID‑19 vaccination after finding evidence that the agency may have sponsored or required vaccination. Simply Research subscribers have access to the full […]
N.J. Top Court Upholds COVID-19 Benefits for Deceased Teacher’s Spouse as ‘Essential’
N.J. Top Court Upholds COVID-19 Benefits for Deceased Teacher’s Spouse as ‘Essential’

Case File Because teachers were deemed essential employees for purposes of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey, a teacher's contraction of COVID-19, which led to her death, was work-related and fully compensable. Simply Research subscribers […]
Idaho Top Court Finds ‘Unknowns’ about COVID Exposure Nix Widow’s Claim
Idaho Top Court Finds ‘Unknowns’ about COVID Exposure Nix Widow’s Claim

Case File When a worker contracted and died from COVID, too many questions about where he was exposed to the virus kept his widow from obtaining benefits. Look for Idaho compliance info Simply Research. Case […]
Did Factory Job Produce Manager’s COVID-19 Infection?
Did Factory Job Produce Manager’s COVID-19 Infection?

What Do You Think? White Plains, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As COVID-19-related workers’ compensation appeals make their way through the New York courts, it becomes somewhat clear what it takes to establish or defend against such […]
Was Deceased Paratransit Driver’s COVID-19 Linked to his Job?
Was Deceased Paratransit Driver’s COVID-19 Linked to his Job?

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As an employer or workers’ compensation carrier in New York, when should you fight a COVID-19-related claim, and when should you not? A case involving a worker who drove sick […]
Workers’ Comp 101: COVID-19 Compensability Cases, Pneumonia Precedent, Scottish Reasoning
Workers’ Comp 101: COVID-19 Compensability Cases, Pneumonia Precedent, Scottish Reasoning

Birmingham, AL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In today's What Do You Think feature, the question at hand focused on whether an Alabama CNA could make a case that she contracted COVID-19 from her job, thereby making it […]