What Do You Think? Employees injured at work normally cannot sue a company for negligence and obtain money damages. The “exclusive remedy rule” limits them to workers’ compensation benefits. But there is an exception if […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE Workers’ compensation is an employee’s exclusive remedy for injuries that arise out of employment and occur in the course of employment. Mississippi Code § 71-3-9. This means that the employee may […]

Case File When a Walmart worker got hit by a truck while jogging off the clock in the parking lot, was it a work-related injury and did his acceptance of workers' compensation benefits matter? Simply […]

Case File Evidence that the daughter of a worker developed mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos he brought home on his work clothes, and not from a brief summer job she held, allowed the daughter's estate […]

What Do You Think? The exclusive remedy provision protects employers with workers’ compensation coverage from being sued for negligence by their employees. If an employee dies during work, does that protection always extend to lawsuits […]

BASIC RULE Workers’ compensation is an employee’s exclusive remedy for injuries that arise out of employment and occur in the course of employment. KRS 342.690(1). This means that the employee cannot sue the employer in […]

Case File Did a manufacturer who contracted for the delivery and transportation of raw materials qualify as a "contractor" entitled to "up-the-ladder" immunity from tort liability? Because hauling limestone was necessary to enable the manufacturer […]

Case File A worker's journey to workers' compensation benefits blocked his path to a gross negligence claim. Simply Research subscribers have access to Oklahoma caselaw and compliance material. Case Cactus Drilling Co. LLC. v. Kirkland, […]