Parker, CO (WorkersCompensation.com)–To obtain workers’ compensation benefits, an employee must show that his injury arose out of his employment. But what happens when an employee falls while working and injures himself, and there’s no clear […]
Bridgeport, CT (WorkersCompensation.com)–The Heart and Hypertension Act in Connecticut provides workers’ compensation benefits to city police department employees hired before 1996. But what happens if the employee took on an entirely new job from his […]
Pearsall, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – A worker can successfully sue his employer under the ADA for failing to accommodate a disability only if he was qualified for the job. One case addresses whether an employee’s inability […]
Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Generally, Georgia’s exclusivity provision prevents an employee from suing a coworker for negligence if the injury occurred while the coworker was acting in the course of employment. But what if the […]
Syracuse, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employees who are intoxicated when they are injured generally have difficulty showing they suffered a compensable injury. But what if, despite the worker’s drinking, it was an intoxicated coworker that caused […]
Geneseo, IL (WorkersCompensation.com)–Whether someone who volunteers for a company is an employee for purposes of workers’ compensation depends on whether there was an employment contract—even an unspoken one. A case involving a pilot who volunteered […]
Stonybrook, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employees are usually not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries that occur on their way to work. But as a case involving a detective struck by a truck on the […]
Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – It’s much easier for an employee to obtain workers’ compensation benefits in New York for a physical injury than for a “psychic” or mental injury. But what if a physical injury […]