Dover, DE (WorkersCompensation.com) -- While no one would dispute that having an injured worker reach the point where she no longer needed to use morphine would be a positive outcome, just because it's a good […]

Hartford, CT (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When you get right down to it, so much of workers’ compensation and the law surrounding it ends up dealing in dollars and cents.  So, it comes as no surprise that […]

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) -- For those who have hung around workers' compensation law awhile, the exclusive remedy concept seems pretty straightforward: If you get benefits under a state's workers' compensation law, you can't turn around […]

Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Wet, snowy stairs aren't a recipe for workplace safety, but was it slippery steps or passing out that caused a teacher's injury? In Chicago Bd. of Educ. v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation, […]

Stuart, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If someone told you they experienced a "Gillette injury" you might think they had a shaving mishap warranting the services of a styptic pencil. If you were in the Land of […]

Dover, DE (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When there's conflicting medical evidence about an injured worker, including that which comes from the worker himself, which side is a ruling authority supposed to come down on? As a Delaware […]

Augusta, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Statutes of limitations can prevent workers' compensation claims from going forward after a certain period of time, but sometimes, circumstances allow that period to be extended. As the recent Maine case Farrell […]

Providence, RI (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Under Rhode Island workers' compensation law, an employer must provide any reasonable medical, surgical, dental, optical, or other attendance or treatment, nurse and hospital service, medicines, crutches, and apparatus for the […]