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Did Supervisor’s Text, Comments Show Walmart Manager Lost Job due to Retaliation?
Did Supervisor’s Text, Comments Show Walmart Manager Lost Job due to Retaliation?

What Do You Think? Boothwyn, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Comments and texts from supervisors can sometimes support an employee’s claim of retaliation. But as a case involving a Walmart store manager shows, the employee still needs to […]
Was Curling Lawnmowers with Shoulder Injury Xmas Miracle or Misrepresentation?
Was Curling Lawnmowers with Shoulder Injury Xmas Miracle or Misrepresentation?

What Do You Think? Schenectady, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A few key pieces of evidence usually work together to show whether an employee was or was not misrepresenting his injuries to obtain workers’ compensation benefits. In […]
Did WC Claim Cause Meat Plant to Put Worker’s Job in Grinder?
Did WC Claim Cause Meat Plant to Put Worker’s Job in Grinder?

What Do You Think? Sioux Falls, SD (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The steps a company takes to either fuel or put the brakes on an employee’s workers’ compensation retaliation claim tend to repeat themselves from case to […]
Was Janitor whose Knee Popped in Hallway Entitled to Benefits?
Was Janitor whose Knee Popped in Hallway Entitled to Benefits?

What Do You Think? Ravenswood, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To obtain workers’ compensation benefits, an employee generally has to show, among other things, that her injury was caused by her work activities. A case involving a […]
Did Company have to Identify ADA Accommodation Just Because Welder Asked for FMLA Leave?
Did Company have to Identify ADA Accommodation Just Because Welder Asked for FMLA Leave?

Chattanooga, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employer must work with an employee to identify possible accommodations once that worker requests an accommodation under the ADA. But what if the employee merely asks for FMLA leave, and […]
Could Mental Health Worker get Benefits for A-fib by Linking it to COVID-19?
Could Mental Health Worker get Benefits for A-fib by Linking it to COVID-19?

What Do You Think? Booneville, AK (WorkersCompensation.com) – In Arkansas, medical conditions that are a natural consequence of a compensable workplace injury may entitle an employee to additional benefits. As one case illustrates, when defending […]
Did Coworkers’ Calls, ‘Off-Boarding’ During FMLA Leave Constitute Interference?
Did Coworkers’ Calls, ‘Off-Boarding’ During FMLA Leave Constitute Interference?

What Do You Think? Hamilton, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – Most FMLA interference claims involve actions an employer takes while the employee tries to obtain medical leave. But what a company does during leave can also constitute […]
What is Virginia’s ‘Extended Premises Doctrine’? 
What is Virginia’s ‘Extended Premises Doctrine’? 

Do You Know the Rule? An injury is compensable under the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act if the injury arose out of and in the course and scope of employment. Generally, to occur in the course […]