What Do You Think? A child who is a dependent may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits when a parent dies at work. A case involving a deceased Rite Aid worker with a 29-year-old son […]

Compliance Corner In the Peach State, the disablement or death of an employee resulting from an occupational disease shall be treated as the occurrence of an injury by accident, something that Simply Research subscribers know. […]

What Do You Think? One way employees can get around the exclusive remedy provision and sue an employer in tort for money damages is by showing the employer purposely injured them. But is it enough […]

Compliance Corner When a worker gets hurt on the job, what do Maryland employers have to report and when do they have to report it? Simply Research users have access to that info, which varies […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE In Florida, workers’ compensation is an employee’s exclusive legal remedy for work-related injuries. Florida Statute § 440.11. This means that the injured employee cannot sue the employer for negligence (which might […]

What Do You Think? An injured employee in Illinois may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits as long as she was not acting intentionally or recklessly. But what if she were injured while driving from […]

Compliance Corner What does New Mexico law spell out for the workers' compensation utilization review process? Simply Research subscribers have that information at their fingertips, but we highlight some key points here. Referral Process (a) […]

Case File When a carpenter suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism and collapsed into shallow water at a jobsite, the key question on appeal was whether the employment created a compensable risk. Simply Research subscribers have […]