Louisville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Hours after a factory exploded last week, first responders found the body of a worker they previously thought had been evacuated. On Nov. 11, multiple workers were injured in the blast […]

Case File Did stopping off at a gift shop on her way home from a conference kill a worker's claim for benefits for an ankle injury? Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text […]

Whitesburg, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Investigators are still working on why a Kentucky sheriff shot and killed a judge in his courthouse chambers, one of several people shot on the job in the past few weeks. […]

What Do You Think? Henderson, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Companies and employees involved in workers’ compensation claims sometimes fight over whether diversity jurisdiction exists such that the case can be heard in federal court rather than […]

What Do You Think? Louisville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Kentucky, an employee may be entitled to a three-times multiplier of his permanent partial disability benefits if he can show he lacks the physical capacity to return […]

What Do You Think? Pikeville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To obtain permanent total disability, an employee must show that the disability is causally connected to the workplace injury at issue. A case involving a truck driver […]

Case File A contingent MMI finding regarding a worker's psychological injury was a reasonable basis for an ALJ to set a 20% impairment rating despite other evidence showing a conflicting possibility. Simply Research subscribers have […]

Glossary Check Elizabethtown, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Let's say you find yourself in the Bluegrass State and someone needs to know, for workers' compensation purposes, what an injury is and what an occupational disease is. If […]