Case File ECAB decided that some of a V.A. worker's medical evidence supported her claims but not all of them. Simply Research readers have access to the full text of the decision. Case P.V. and […]

What Do You Think? It’s probably not much fun investigating sexual harassment at a university, or anywhere else, for that matter. The stress might even trigger mental health challenges -- as it apparently did in […]

What Do You Think? In Illinois, if a “borrowed employee” injures a worker, the borrowing employer's workers' compensation coverage likely applies. If that's the case, then the injured worker can't sue the employee's general (original) […]

Courts & Compliance Recently, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court considered what a workers' compensation judge must do at trial and what deference a WCJ's decisions are entitled to on appeal. I the case, Lebanon Transit v. […]

Compliance Corner If you're in Maryland and you're looking for information on calculating hearing loss for purposes of workers' compensation, there are several sources you can turn to. One of those sources is Simply Research, […]

Glossary Check For those who need to work in technical language and get it right, knowing definitions of terms and how they're defined or described under states' workers' compensation laws could come in handy. Simply […]

Do You Know the Rule? As with most other jurisdictions, Wisconsin has statutory provisions regarding what happens when a worker experiences an injury heading to or leaving from the job. That information is available to […]

What Do You Think? In New York, when there a subcontractor has workers’ compensation coverage, the injured employee may still be able to sue the general contractor for negligence. But this is generally not the […]