Glossary Check Quick quiz: Define "employee" for purposes of Delaware workers' compensation law. Once you've got it, do the same for "employer." While you might have a basic understanding of what those words mean, Simply […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE In Connecticut, the Workers’ Compensation Act provides the exclusive remedy for employees injured “arising out of and in the course of employment.” This means that employers are immune to their employees’ […]

Compliance Corner What are the ways that Vermont computes average weekly wage? The answer to that -- and so much more -- is on Simply Research, but we highlight the basics here. 26 Weeks Average […]

What Do You Think? Employers in Pennsylvania must file an answer to a workers’ compensation claim within 20 days of receiving it. But what happens when weather or some other event outside of the employer’s […]

Case File Determining which of two methods for calculating average weekly wage for an employee who worked seasonally but might have been able to do more but for her injury required Maine's Law Court to […]

Case File Is an employee who experiences intermittent layoffs due to the seasonal nature of his job a "seasonal" worker under Maine law? Not necessarily, and Simply Research subscribers can read the full text about […]

What Do You Think? When a spouse dies from an occupational disease, the surviving spouse has one year to file a claim for death benefits. Prior to Sept. 28, 2021, that period (the statute of […]

Case File After sustaining an injury from a toppling load, an employee for Lowe's had a somewhat rocky relationship with a doctor treating her, eventually holding up a picture of Jesus and declaring that he […]