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NCCI Court Case Update
NCCI Court Case Update

Iowa, Entitlement to Death Benefits On October 30, 2024, the Iowa Court of Appeals, in Linnhaven Inc. v. Blasdell, affirmed an award of workers compensation (WC) death benefits to the spouse of a totally disabled employee […]
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 […]
Did Nurse’s ‘Plandemic’ Comments Justify Ending Benefits for Long-COVID?
Did Nurse’s ‘Plandemic’ Comments Justify Ending Benefits for Long-COVID?

What Do You Think? Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits due to COVID-19 sometimes seek to extend those benefits based on symptoms of “long-COVID.”  It can be hard for doctors to objectively […]
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 […]
Could an Anxious Nurse Skip Mental Health IME that Went from In-person to Telehealth?
Could an Anxious Nurse Skip Mental Health IME that Went from In-person to Telehealth?

What Do You Think? Vancouver, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employee in Washington state may be able to justify her failure to attend an IME if she can show she had good cause for doing so. […]
What Makes a Disease Compensable in Delaware?
What Makes a Disease Compensable in Delaware?

Wilmington, DE (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If you read our summary of Fowler v. Perdue Inc., No. 412, 2023 (Del. 06/24/24), you learned that the Delaware Supreme Court found a worker's case of COVID-19 didn't entitle him […]
Perdue Worker Doesn’t Establish that COVID-19 was ‘Natural to’ Work Environment
Perdue Worker Doesn’t Establish that COVID-19 was ‘Natural to’ Work Environment

Dover, DE (WorkersCompensation.com) -- People whose jobs required them to be onsite during the worst of the COVID-19 surely faced a greater risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 than their work-from-home counterparts, but does that mean that […]
HR Homeroom: Employer’s COVID Vaccination Rule doesn’t Create ‘Record of’ ADA Claim
HR Homeroom: Employer’s COVID Vaccination Rule doesn’t Create ‘Record of’ ADA Claim

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Since Pfizer and Moderna rolled out their answers to the COVID-19 pandemic, there's been countless arguments offered for why requiring a workforce to get the jab is a wrong idea. […]