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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. […]
What Do You Think: Could Traveling Oilfield Surveyor Get Benefits for COVID-19 Infection?
What Do You Think: Could Traveling Oilfield Surveyor Get Benefits for COVID-19 Infection?

Iowa, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – In Louisiana, it’s uncertain whether a person who contracts COVID-19 at work has an occupational disease. Generally, to constitute an occupational disease, a condition must be peculiar to the person’s job. […]
Maine Turnpike Worker Connects COVID Infection to Working with Maskless Coworker
Maine Turnpike Worker Connects COVID Infection to Working with Maskless Coworker

Augusta, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Back when COVID was going around freely, if you came down with it, how could you be sure where you caught it? In Wooten v. Maine Turnpike Authority, No. 24-5 (Me. […]