State Snapshot BASIC RULE  Workers' compensation is the sole remedy for employees who suffer injuries or illnesses that arise out of and in the course of employment. N.Y. Workers' Comp. Law § 29(6).  This means […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE  Worker’s compensation is the sole remedy for employees who suffer injuries in the course of employment. 77 P.S. § 481(a).  This means that the employee (or, if he dies, his dependents) […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE  Worker’s compensation is the sole remedy for employees who suffer injuries that arise out of and in the course of employment. N.J. Rev. Stat. § 34:15-7  This means that the employee […]

What Do You Think? An employer may face significant liability if a worker can show the employer intentionally injured him. That’s because intentional injuries are generally not considered workplace accidents whose sole remedy is workers’ […]

The “exclusive remedy” rule is not the only thing that can stop an employee from suing a company for negligence when the company has workers’ compensation coverage. An Ohio case involving an employee who said […]

What Do You Think? Employees generally can’t sue employers for monetary damages in court. Workers’ compensation is the exclusive remedy, in most cases, and tends to zap those cases right out of court. But consider […]

Case File The Maryland Supreme Court held that the plain language of the exclusive remedy provision of the state's Workers' Compensation Act was unambiguous in that a compliant employer's liability for a covered employee's work-related […]

What Do You Think? Injured North Carolina workers and their estates can sue their employer for negligence if they can meet the requirements of the Woodson exception to the exclusivity rule. A case involving a […]