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Did Claimant’s Scooter Business Run over his PTD Benefits?
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Soccer Player Scores Second Look at Knee Injury Claim
Soccer Player Scores Second Look at Knee Injury Claim

Case File A professional soccer player injured her knee while playing in 2001 or 2002, but in 2015 she began experiencing problems with the other knee, something she attributed to having to walk different because […]
Can Construction Laborer get Benefits for On-the-job Heart Attack?
Can Construction Laborer get Benefits for On-the-job Heart Attack?

What Do You Think? Casper, WY (WorkersCompensation.com). An employee who suffers a heart attack at work may or may not be able to obtain workers’ compensation benefits for the injury. Whether he can secure benefits […]
What is the ‘Idiopathic Fall Doctrine’ in Utah?
What is the ‘Idiopathic Fall Doctrine’ in Utah?

Do You Know the Rule? Ogden, UT (WorkersCompensation.com) – In Utah, for the idiopathic fall doctrine to apply, a condition of the employee’s work must actually aggravate the injury the worker sustains. The presence of […]
Did Shoveling Snow Stop Construction Manager’s Heart – or was it Just Cigarettes?
Did Shoveling Snow Stop Construction Manager’s Heart – or was it Just Cigarettes?

What Do You Think? Montgomery, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A preexisting condition can bar an employee from recovering for an accidental injury at work. But what if multiple factors–not just the pre-existing condition–caused the accident? Can […]
What Makes a Disease Compensable in Delaware?
What Makes a Disease Compensable in Delaware?

Wilmington, DE (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If you read our summary of Fowler v. Perdue Inc., No. 412, 2023 (Del. 06/24/24), you learned that the Delaware Supreme Court found a worker's case of COVID-19 didn't entitle him […]
Do You Know the Rule? N.Y. Presumption of Compensability for Workplace Assaults
Do You Know the Rule? N.Y. Presumption of Compensability for Workplace Assaults

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In New York, it’s presumed that an injury which occurs in the course of work also arises out of employment and is thus compensable under the state’s workers’ compensation law. That […]
What Do You Think: Was Louisiana Renaissance Festival Jouster’s Fall from Horse Compensable?
What Do You Think: Was Louisiana Renaissance Festival Jouster’s Fall from Horse Compensable?

Hammond, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Louisiana exempts from workers’ compensation coverage certain types of employees, including, in some instances, “performers.” The definition of performer, however, is not clearcut.  A case involving a jousting competition at a […]

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