State Snapshot BASIC RULE In Maryland, workers’ compensation is an employee’s exclusive legal remedy for work-related injuries. Md. Lab. & Empl. Code Ann. § 9-509. This means that the injured employee cannot sue the employer […]

What Do You Think? New York's exclusive remedy rule protects employers from most tort lawsuits. But what happens when the worker sues an entity that has a different name but is intimately connected to the […]

What Do You Think? One way employees can get around the exclusive remedy provision and sue an employer in tort for money damages is by showing the employer purposely injured them. But is it enough […]

What Do You Think? In Alaska, the “remote site doctrine” may expand the reach of the workers’ compensation act even to an employee’s residence–if that residence is supplied by the employer. A case involving a […]

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. S.C. Code Ann. § 42-1-54. This means that the employee […]

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 […]