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 […]

Case File A contingent MMI finding regarding a worker's psychological injury was a reasonable basis for an ALJ to set a 20% impairment rating despite other evidence showing a conflicting possibility. Simply Research subscribers have […]

Case File Although a worker tried to claim that his Texas employer didn't have the right kind of workers' compensation coverage to satisfy state law in an effort to circumvent the exclusivity remedy defense, evidence […]

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 […]

Case File In Tennessee, an "injury" arises primarily out of and in the course and scope of employment" only if it has been shown by a preponderance of the evidence that the employment contributed more […]

Glossary Check Deadwood, SD (WorkersCompenstion.com) -- Of the many pieces of state compliance information that readers have at their fingertips on Simply Research, one recently added form breaks down foundational need-to-know information from South Dakota. […]

Case File Although a literal take on a statute in Pennsylvania would have deprived a worker of benefits after he returned to work part-time after retiring, context and the "absurdity doctrine," pointed in favor of […]

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