Compliance Corner Recognizing that limited education and advancing age impact anemployee’s post-injury earning capacity, an education and age factor,when applicable, shall be added to the income benefit multiplier. As Simply Research subscribers know, the multipliers […]

Case File Because an ALJ didn’t give enough to indicate how a worker could continue doing her clerical job and be unable to work at the same time, the Kentucky Supreme Court thought it best […]

What Do You Think? When determining disability benefits based on an employee’s average weekly wages, judges typically include salary, commissions, and bonuses. A recent Kentucky Supreme Court addresses whether an employee’s mileage reimbursement should be […]

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 […]

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 […]

What Do You Think? Kentucky employers should think twice before trying to avoid paying a claim merely based on alcohol intoxication. A case involving a road safety worker who had alcohol in his blood when […]

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 […]

On February 19, 2026, the Supreme Court of Kentucky, in Minova USA, Inc. v. Jolly, considered whether a manufacturer that contracts with a freight carrier for transporting raw materials may be sued by the carrier's employee […]