What Do You Think? Employees injured on the way to or from work are generally not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for their injuries. There’s an exception to that rule where the employer provides the […]

Glossary Check If you're looking to expand your vocabulary of Idaho workers' compensation law, a good place to start would be Simply Research. We take a look at some of what you will find there, […]

Case File Because the Massachusetts Insurers Insolvency Fund takes over an insolvent insurer's rights and responsibilities under the commonwealth's workers' compensation law, it has a right to collect cost-of-living adjustment reimbursements as the insurer would […]

What Do You Think? A traveling employee who is injured while working is generally considered to be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits. But what happens when the employee dies during? A case involving a trucker […]

Florida—Requirement to Seek Initial Relief Within the Workers Compensation System On June 13, 2025, the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District, in Steak 'N Shake, Inc. v. Spears, ruled that an employee may not […]

Case File An insurer in "run-off" sought to collect second-injury trust fund reimbursements for payments it made to an injured worker, but the trust fund contended that the insurer was a nonparticipant and so could […]

Do You Know the Rule? The Basics on Wage Subsidies To further encourage employers to maintain the employment of their injured workers, a State of Washington employer insured with the department that offers work to […]

Case File When it comes to latent disease cases, the Washington Supreme Court did away with a decade-old precedent case to hold that an employer's virtual certainty that disease will occur satisfies the "actual knowledge" […]