Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Iowa, to get experts' reports into evidence, a workers' compensation claimant must certify those experts as experts within statutorily defined timeframes. Because a worker did not do so in […]

Salt Lake City, UT (WorkersCompensation.com) -- How qualified do doctors have to be to make their medical opinion stand up in a workers' compensation proceeding in Utah? According to the court in Nucor and Ace […]

Eugene, OR (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To determine medically stationary status in Oregon, state statutes spell out what must be present. The following breaks down the requirements. In Oregon, a worker is medically stationary in the following […]

Tacoma, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Stressed out in Seattle? It may be compensable if it results from a single traumatic event. That's because in the State of Washington, stress resulting from exposure to a single traumatic […]

Gallatin, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- How does Tennessee define "petition for benefit determination"? The following spells it out. A petition for benefit determination is a written request for the bureau to assist in resolution of disputed […]

Gallatin, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Tennessee, "injury" and "personal injury" include "mental injury," which state law defines as a loss of mental faculties or a mental or behavioral disorder, arising primarily out of a compensable […]

Harrisburg, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Anyone who's ever paid for expensive prescriptions has probably felt a degree of "sticker shock" when footing the bill. But in Federated Insurance Co. v. Summit Pharmacy, No. 115 C.D. 2023 […]

Bangor, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When does an employee's change in job duties represent new employment? As the Appellate Division of Maine's Workers' Compensation Board explained in Farmer v. Walmart Inc., No. 23-19 (W.C.B. Me. App. […]