What Do You Think? Employees generally can’t sue employers for monetary damages in court. Workers’ compensation is the exclusive remedy, in most cases, and tends to zap those cases right out of court. But consider […]

Case File A combination of an IME and video surveillance conspired against a worker's efforts to challenge discontinuation of her workers' compensation benefits. Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text of the decision. […]

What Do You Think? Employers can engage in FMLA interference by taking adverse action, or threatening to do so, in response to an employee’s use of FMLA leave.  That was a laboratory technician’s claim in […]

25 for 25 in '25 Although an employer was fine with employees taking personal stops on business trips, such latitude for self-care did not extend to doing work for other employers. Simply Research subscribers have […]

What Do You Think? To be compensable, an injury must be caused by the job in some way. A case involving the suicide of a police officer shows how critical expert testimony can be to […]

Do You Know the Rule? In New Mexico, employers and carriers may find themselves on the hook for payments beyond the workers’ compensation benefits they owe if a claimant shows they engaged in "bad faith." […]

Case File Based on its reading of state law, the Supreme Court of North Dakota determined in an action for unpaid workers' compensation premiums that the owner of a corporation could not be held personally […]

What Do You Think? The special mission exception can make an injury compensable even when it occurs while the employee is travelling. This can include travel to a company meeting. But what if the meeting […]