What Do You Think? Some workers have such stressful jobs that it’s easy to picture their heart stopping at work or at least skipping a beat. But is a heart attack compensable simply because an […]

What Do You Think? An injury is only compensable if it is caused by an employee’s job. Generally, an injury that occurs at work while an employee is engaged in some work obligation is compensable. […]

What Do You Think? A case involving a Macy’s worker who received more benefits than she was entitled to highlights the importance of monitoring workers’ compensation claims. It also sheds light on what constitutes an […]

What Do You Think? Employers can get into trouble for retaliation if they fire an employee because the employee is using or has used FMLA leave. But what if that employee genuinely cannot return to […]

What Do You Think? Claims administrators should not automatically deny every request for medically related equipment, even if it seems at first glance far out. But they should consider whether the claimant has provided anything […]

Is statistical evidence that a worker was just as likely to contract COVID-19 outside of work than at work enough, by itself, to defeat a workers’ compensation claim? The state’s High Court recently addressed that […]

What Do You Think? Firefighting is a difficult and dangerous job. So, when a firefighter gets hurt at work, one assumes the injury occurred when he or she was heroically battling a dangerous conflagration–not when […]

What Do You Think? An employer generally has discretion to choose among reasonable accommodations for purposes of ADA compliance. A case involving a Maryland pest control technician for Orkin addresses the question of whether putting […]