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Did Deflated Seat Cause Fuel Truck Driver’s Degenerative Spine Condition?
Did Deflated Seat Cause Fuel Truck Driver’s Degenerative Spine Condition?

What Do You Think? Pikeville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To obtain permanent total disability, an employee must show that the disability is causally connected to the workplace injury at issue. A case involving a truck driver […]
What’s the Latest Case on Simply Research?
What’s the Latest Case on Simply Research?

Tips & Tricks Why would we cover a 1995 case? Maybe it's good law and good knowledge.
Exclusive Remedy Knocks Out Mass. Worker’s Claims
Exclusive Remedy Knocks Out Mass. Worker’s Claims

Case File A Massachusetts worker had punched out and was heading to his car to leave for the day when a coworker plowed into him in an employer-owned vehicle. The exclusive remedy provisions of Massachusetts […]
Worker Can’t Tack on ADA Retaliation Charge to Claims
Worker Can’t Tack on ADA Retaliation Charge to Claims

Case File An Arkansas worker came up short in his attempt to add ADA retaliation charges related to his workers' compensation claim due to rules related to exhausting administrative remedies as well as the exclusive […]
Ky. Top Court Upholds ALJ’s Psychological Impairment Conclusion
Ky. Top Court Upholds ALJ’s Psychological Impairment Conclusion

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 […]
Texas Employer Shows Policy Met State Exclusivity Rules on Worker’s Suit
Texas Employer Shows Policy Met State Exclusivity Rules on Worker’s Suit

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 […]
What is the ‘Idiopathic Fall Doctrine’ in Utah?
What is the ‘Idiopathic Fall Doctrine’ in Utah?

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 […]
Tenn. Definition of ‘Injury’ Survives Worker’s Constitutional Challenge
Tenn. Definition of ‘Injury’ Survives Worker’s Constitutional Challenge

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 […]