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" […]

Case File When a hoist didn't work properly, a worker sustained an injury and questions about New York's Labor Law and indemnification arose. Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text of the decision. […]

Case File Is incapacity something that a workers' compensation court or a district court should handle in Minnesota? According to the state's top court, the answer comes down to the question of whether it's an […]

Workers' Comp 101 In the Golden State, what makes an injury come under the workers' compensation system? That kind of information for California and the rest of the U.S. is on Simply Research, but we […]

25 for 25 in '25 We take it back to '05 and a New York case that teaches us that a written agreement may still be enforceable in the eyes of a workers' compensation exception […]

Case File Amazon claimed that it used independent contractors in its Flex drivers program and lost that argument. Then it tried to say that not all of the drivers in the program should be treated […]

Case File When a Florida teacher sought continuing medical treatments for headaches she experienced after being hit by a student, her employer's failure to contest the compensability of those headaches within 120 days meant she […]

Case File After a teacher experienced a serious eye injury at the hands of a violent student, her request for benefits later on hit twin snags in the form of a legal doctrine and a […]