What Do You Think? A case involving a customer service agent for the New York City subway system highlights how the standard for compensability of psychological injuries has changed, and hints at the types of […]

What Do You Think? Even when an employee is not on the clock and nowhere near the office when she's injured, she may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. That can happen, for instance, if […]

Compliance Corner Did you know that workers' compensation fraud in New York is a felony? Simply Research subscribers do because they have access to the following rules regarding misrepresentation in Empire State claims. The Basics […]

What Do You Think? Employees injured on their way to work generally can’t obtain workers’ compensation benefits. But that's not always true. A case involving a Harrah’s dealer who fell over a forklift shows how […]

What Do You Think? The exclusive remedy rule protects employers from personal injury lawsuits by limiting most injured employees to workers’ compensation benefits. In Louisiana, and other states, employees can skirt that rule by showing […]

What Do You Think? New York's exclusive remedy rule protects employers from most tort lawsuits. But what happens when the worker sues an entity that has a different name but is intimately connected to the […]

Case File A pharmacy technician's settlement with Walmart, Inc. involved the same subject matter as her claim against the Second Injury Fund and “constitute[d] a final bar to any further rights arising under” the Iowa […]

Bits & Pieces What happens in Pennsylvania if a worker's goofing off is the reason he got hurt on the job? Is the injury still compensable? As Simply Research subscribers know, the Keystone State has […]