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Case Lesson: How Workers Try to Connect Negative Employment Decisions to FMLA Leave
Case Lesson: How Workers Try to Connect Negative Employment Decisions to FMLA Leave

Doylesown, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – One of the main places where a worker’s FMLA retaliation case falls apart is where the worker tries to connect his FMLA request to his termination (or other negative employment action). […]
Bus Driver Tormented by COVID-19 Fears can’t Collect Benefits for Mental Injuries
Bus Driver Tormented by COVID-19 Fears can’t Collect Benefits for Mental Injuries

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Few would question that being a bus driver during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was highly stressful and might lead to depression and anxiety, and possibly heavy drinking […]
What Do You Think: Was Dozing Detention Officer Still Qualified for Job?
What Do You Think: Was Dozing Detention Officer Still Qualified for Job?

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 […]
Do You Know the Rule? Ill. Workers’ Right to PTSD Benefits
Do You Know the Rule? Ill. Workers’ Right to PTSD Benefits

Springfield, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Employers in Illinois may be responsible for paying workers’ compensation benefits for an employee with PTSD, but only under certain conditions. First, as with all injuries eligible for workers’ compensation benefits, […]
Do You Know the Rule? Ariz’s Presumption of Occupational Disease for Firefighters
Do You Know the Rule? Ariz’s Presumption of Occupational Disease for Firefighters

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Beginning in 2001, the Arizona Legislature made it easier for firefighters (and fire investigators) seeking workers’ compensation to show that their job as a firefighter caused their cancer. Presumption of Occupational […]
Walmart Night-stocker Can’t Show Chest Pain Came from Moving 2,000-lb Pallet
Walmart Night-stocker Can’t Show Chest Pain Came from Moving 2,000-lb Pallet

Chandler, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employers should put forth solid medical evidence and their best arguments supporting that evidence during a workers’ compensation hearing. As a case involving a Walmart night stocker shows, if there are […]
What Do You Think: May Worker Struck by Car in Parking Lot Sue for Personal Injury?
What Do You Think: May Worker Struck by Car in Parking Lot Sue for Personal Injury?

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 […]
Do You Know the Rule? Compensation in N.Y. for a Workplace Assault
Do You Know the Rule? Compensation in N.Y. for a Workplace Assault

Albany, NY (workerscompensation.com) -- When an employee is assaulted at work, most employers hope to show that the victim’s injuries are covered under the state’s workers’ compensation act. That way, workers’ compensation is the victim’s […]