HR Homeroom Employers can face FMLA interference claims when they flatly refuse to grant leave or outright terminate an employee after he returns from medical leave.  A case involving an employee for a car dealership […]

What Do You Think? A compensable injury must arise out of employment. A case involving a commercial truck driver for a Virginia company addresses the question of whether a road rage incident can be sufficiently […]

What Do You Think? An employer can sometimes avoid a negligence lawsuit by demonstrating that the workers’ compensation act applies to the injury, making those benefits the employee’s sole available remedy.  One case, in addition […]

What Do You Think? Is it possible for a worker to obtain benefits for an injury that no one witnessed? Yes. But in Louisiana, the worker will have to clear a couple of hurdles to […]

What Do You Think? Employers can generally avoid paying worker’s compensation benefits by showing that the worker is an independent contractor. Only it’s not always clear. One case highlights some of the signs courts look […]

25 for 25 in '25 We throw it back to 2004 and take a look at a case from the top court of Florida, which dug into the boring-but-important question of what courts can and […]

Introduction On January 31, 2025, the Georgia Court of Appeals decided a workers compensation claim, Taylor v. Argos, USA. The central issue was whether the employee should have been awarded TTD benefits when he refused to […]

What Do You Think? New Hampshire’s statute of limitations period for filing a workers’ compensation claim is generally three years. A recent ruling from the state’s high court addresses whether, in the case of death […]