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Tenn. Worker's Psychiatric Challenges don't Relieve Grocery Store of Agreement
Tenn. Worker's Psychiatric Challenges don't Relieve Grocery Store of Agreement

Knoxville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As with most other legally binding contracts, settlement agreements employers reach with injured workers typically take a pretty strong case to knock down in court.  That reality was on display in Food […]
ECAB Sends Case Back to OWCP to Rethink $84,820.09 Overpayment Ruling Against Employee's Widow
ECAB Sends Case Back to OWCP to Rethink $84,820.09 Overpayment Ruling Against Employee's Widow

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As occurs at the state level, receiving Social Security benefits can impact what federal workers’ compensation benefits employees, or their surviving spouses, may receive.  As an example, in P.W. v. Department […]
Ill. Court Rejects Employer's Request for Credits, Including what it Paid Employee Not to Work
Ill. Court Rejects Employer's Request for Credits, Including what it Paid Employee Not to Work

Springfield, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When a worker receives workers' compensation benefits along with benefits due through contractual arrangements or other considerations, can the employer claim a credit? That issue was up for consideration in Joliet v. […]
Maine Panel Rejects Employer's Challenge to ALJ Ruling on Social Security Offset
Maine Panel Rejects Employer's Challenge to ALJ Ruling on Social Security Offset

Augusta, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When employees beginning receiving Social Security retirement benefits, it changes what their employers owe in workers’ compensation benefits, but workers can delay receiving Social Security if they choose, which can affect […]
Glossary Check: Ohio 'Self-insurance,' 'Self-insuring Employer'
Glossary Check: Ohio 'Self-insurance,' 'Self-insuring Employer'

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Ohio, as in other states, the rules regarding self-insuring employers are different from what applies to insured employers for purposes of workers' compensation law. So what are self-insurance and self-insuring […]
Wyo. Worker's Odd-Lot Argument Falls Short
Wyo. Worker's Odd-Lot Argument Falls Short

Casper, WY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- An impairment rating isn’t the end of the story for determining whether a worker is or isn’t due workers’ compensation benefits.  As the worker learned in Rodriguez v. Wyoming, No. S-22-0131 […]
Mont. Top Court Revises WCC Benefits Down for Concurrent Employee
Mont. Top Court Revises WCC Benefits Down for Concurrent Employee

Butte, MT (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It’s becoming increasingly common for people to hold down more than one job, which can raise some compensation questions if a worker injured doing one job isn’t able to work the […]
Minn. Deputy Establishes PTSD Presumption
Minn. Deputy Establishes PTSD Presumption

Minneapolis, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In many states, presumptions apply that grant workers in certain fields an entitlement to benefits that require employers to rebut the presumption.  Such is the case in Minnesota, as Juntunen v. […]