Winchester, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A traveling employee generally can recover workers’ compensation benefits for injuries sustained at a hotel where her employer required her to stay. But what if she’s on her way out to […]
Louisville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Kentucky, the average weekly wage of the state is determined by the executive director as follows: + On or before September 1 of each year, the total wages reported by […]
Martin County, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Officials in eastern Kentucky have confirmed that one of two workers trapped inside a coal preparation plant when it collapsed has died. Rescue workers are still working to get to […]
Frankfort, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Throughout the coal belt in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia, “there’s an unacceptably large number of younger miners who have end-stage black lung disease and the only choice is to get […]
On September 28, 2023, the Supreme Court of Kentucky, in Tennco Energy, Inc. v. Lane, addressed when a workers compensation (WC) claimant should notify the employer of an impending coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP) claim, where the […]
On September 1, 2023, the Supreme Court of Delaware, in Horizon Services, Inc. v. Henry, reversed its previous precedent and held that the state’s workers compensation (WC) law allows an employer/carrier (E/C) to assert a subrogation lien […]
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Lexington, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – If the Rolling Stones were writing about the ADA instead of parties and painting “it black” (whatever that means), they might have had something useful to say about employers’ obligation to […]