What Do You Think? Whether an injured worker is entitled to total disability benefits or partial disability benefits can hinge on whether he continues working at a second job. That’s one reason it may be […]

Do You Know the Rule? A worker whose injury has forced him to retire generally may continue to receive workers’ compensation benefits in Pennsylvania. An employer may file a petition seeking to terminate a claimant's […]

What Do You Think? Can an employee who suffers mental health injury at work sue his employer for monetary damages, or is his only relief the state workers’ compensation act? A Pennsylvania case addressed whether […]

Courts & Compliance Recently, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court considered what a workers' compensation judge must do at trial and what deference a WCJ's decisions are entitled to on appeal. I the case, Lebanon Transit v. […]

Connecticut—Administrative Law Judge’s Discretion to Award Temporary Partial Incapacity Benefits After Maximum Medical Improvement On March 18, 2025, the Supreme Court of Connecticut, in Gardner v. Dept. of Mental Health & Addiction Services, considered whether an […]

Employees who would rather use CBD oil than go through risky surgery or take pharmaceutical drugs with potential side effects may now be able to secure reimbursement for the oil. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently […]

What Do You Think? Employers can violate state and federal law if they terminate an employee because the employee is pregnant. But the employee will have to show that the pregnancy was the reason for […]

Employers that hope to terminate an individual’s workers’ compensation benefits based on the employee’s voluntary withdrawal from the workforce need to think carefully before taking that step. Filing a petition to stop benefits could end […]