Form Focus In California, injured workers may be eligible to submit a supplemental job displacement non-transferrable $6,000 voucher for education-related retraining or skill enhancement. It can be used for education, counseling or training services. The […]

What Do You Think? Schenectady, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A few key pieces of evidence usually work together to show whether an employee was or was not misrepresenting his injuries to obtain workers’ compensation benefits. In […]

Stuart, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It's that time of year again where the news desk looks back on what we learned that we might be able to take forward for a better new year. Or maybe […]

What Do You Think? Sioux Falls, SD (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The steps a company takes to either fuel or put the brakes on an employee’s workers’ compensation retaliation claim tend to repeat themselves from case to […]

Glossary Check If someone was talking about "benefits" in California, would you know what they are? The Golden State spells them out on the state-required Notice to Employees poster, which Simply Research subscribers have access […]

What Do You Think? Ravenswood, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To obtain workers’ compensation benefits, an employee generally has to show, among other things, that her injury was caused by her work activities. A case involving a […]

Case File While a worker injured on the job didn't present evidence regarding whether Washington, D.C.'s exclusive remedy rules should apply, an appeals court found that the lower court was too hasty in deciding that […]

Case File Because a worker presented evidence that his psychological condition had worsened, the Ohio Supreme Court determine that an SHO too hastily turned away his request for PTD benefits. Simply Research subscribers have access […]