What Do You Think? Employees seeking workers’ compensation benefits may sometimes feel their injury is compensable simply because it happened at work during work hours. But as a case involving a seamstress for law enforcement […]

Do You Know the Rule? To be compensable, an injury must occur in the course and scope of employment and arise out of employment. ’Under the street-risk rule, an injury that occurs while an employee is […]

What Do You Think? Employers may have to provide workers’ compensation benefits when an employee is injured while driving for the company. But is that also true when an employee is injured solely because he […]

What Do You Think? Certain first responders filing a claim for a lung injury are entitled to the benefit of the doubt in some respects. For instance, there is often a presumption that their injury […]

Case File A Nevada presumption did not create a standalone category of compensable lung disease that would eliminate a corrections officer's need to show exposure, according to the state's top court. Simply Research subscribers have […]

Compliance Corner What does it mean for a worker who experiences employment-related aggravation of preexisting condition that is not employment related? What about when the worker experiences aggravation of an employment-related injury by incident that […]

Workers’ compensation can be an important source of relief after an accident at work. You might get a lump sum, weekly, or monthly payments. While these payments are helpful, many people wonder if they are […]

AmTrust N. Am., Inc. v. Vasquez, 2024 WL 4233423 (Nev. 2024)  By Gary L. Wickert, Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C.  On September 19, 2024, in one of the most pro-subrogation decisions in a generation, the […]