Quick Hits As Simply Research readers know, a key step in whether a worker has a workers' compensation claim is determining whether the injury arose out of and in the course of the worker's employment. […]

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 […]

What Do You Think? In Ohio, as in many states, employees cannot obtain workers’ compensation benefits if their intoxication caused them to get injured. A case involving a vacuum packaging line associate who got his […]

Glossary Check It might not be hard to describe what it means for someone to be "intoxicated," but what if it has to do with workers' compensation? Thankfully, Simply Research has the information covered. For […]

Case File A construction contractor's lack of control over a law enforcement officer's work directing traffic around a project meant that it was not the officer's joint employer for workers' compensation purposes. Simply Research subscribers […]

Around the States Since the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has become a regular option for employers, workers, and insurers navigating the contours of a workers' compensation claim, including maximum medical improvement (or other similar state-specific terminology) […]

Case File Because teachers were deemed essential employees for purposes of the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey, a teacher's contraction of COVID-19, which led to her death, was work-related and fully compensable. Simply Research subscribers […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE In New Mexico, workers’ compensation is the exclusive legal remedy for workplace injuries.  N.M. Stat. Ann. 52-1-6(E). This means that the employee cannot sue the employer in tort (where the employee might […]