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University Employee’s Trek Off Campus finds Coverage under ‘Positional Risk’ Test
University Employee’s Trek Off Campus finds Coverage under ‘Positional Risk’ Test

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Generally speaking, the going and coming rule bars compensation when an employee's injury is sustained off the worker premises, while en route to or from work. However, as Rieger v. District […]
Assaulted by Patient, Nurse Can’t Connect Continued PTSD to Workplace Injury
Assaulted by Patient, Nurse Can’t Connect Continued PTSD to Workplace Injury

Augusta, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When medical evidence could point for or against a worker, what's that mean for a workers' compensation claim? As the court in McLaughlin v. Community Living Association, No. App. Div. 23-0019 […]
Iowa Top Court Clarifies that Vascular Disease Not Per Se Injury to Body as Whole
Iowa Top Court Clarifies that Vascular Disease Not Per Se Injury to Body as Whole

Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In workers' compensation law, administrative bodies are tasked with applying case law precedent to the best of their interpretive abilities, but sometimes it leads to interpretations that need clearing up. […]
N.Y. Presumption Leads Court to Find Fall Happened in Course of Employment
N.Y. Presumption Leads Court to Find Fall Happened in Course of Employment

If a worker falls on the job, but no one saw what happened, what happens? The court in Bosque v. Prime Support Inc., 2024 WL 1774127 (N.Y. App. Div. 04/25/24) addressed the question, applying a […]
Social Worker’s Evidence Connects Details of Client’s Murdering Someone to Job-related PTSD
Social Worker’s Evidence Connects Details of Client’s Murdering Someone to Job-related PTSD

Minneapolis, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- What does it take for a worker in Minnesota to establish that she experienced PTSD because of her job? That was the question the state's top court faced in Tea v. […]
S.C. Top Court Rejects Relevancy of Ergonomics Report on Repetitive Stress Claim
S.C. Top Court Rejects Relevancy of Ergonomics Report on Repetitive Stress Claim

Columbia, SC (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Can an ergonomics report determine whether an employee suffered a repetitive stress injury without any evidence from a doctor to weigh in on the individual nuances of a claim? According to […]
Colo. Worker Shows Head Injury Happened ‘In Course of’ Employment
Colo. Worker Shows Head Injury Happened ‘In Course of’ Employment

Kiowa, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When a worker alleges that he has an injury that happened on the job, one of the first things he'll need to do is show that it happened in the course […]
Glossary Check: Nevada ‘Vocational Rehabilitation Services’
Glossary Check: Nevada ‘Vocational Rehabilitation Services’

Las Vegas, NV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Pop quiz: In Nevada, what counts as "vocational rehabilitation services"? Not to worry, we have you have covered with how the state defines that term. We have you covered in […]