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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 […]

Newark, DE (WorkersCompensation.com). When an employer involves employees in volunteer work, that work can result in a compensable injury if it occurred within the scope of employment. A case involving a customer service representative  for […]

By Gary L. Wickert  The ability of a workers’ compensation carrier to subrogate against and/or seek reimbursement from a recovery made from a third-party tortfeasor responsible for causing the employee’s work-related injuries is universally recognized […]

Overruling Simendinger v. National Union Fire Insurance Co., 74 A.3d 609 (Del. 2013), the Delaware Supreme Court decided that the state's workers' compensation law expressly allowed an employer and carrier to assert a subrogation lien […]

On September 1, 2023, the Supreme Court of Delaware, in Horizon Services, Inc. v. Henry, reversed its previous precedent and held that the state’s workers compensation (WC) law allows an employer/carrier (E/C) to assert a subrogation lien […]

Wilmington, DE (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Those who read regularly our sister site, Simply Research, know that the State of Delaware has a rule about physician selection. What is that rule? In Delaware, an employee has the […]