Case File The West Virgina top court upheld an Office of Judges' decision that found in a worker's favor on the basis that the employer didn't connect the dots between an alleged preexisting condition and […]

Bellows Falls, VT (WorkersCompensation.com) – Whether an employer’s workers’ compensation coverage applies when an employee is injured in another state depends on the state’s WCA–and how courts decide to interpret it. A case involving a […]

What Do You Think? Goshen, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Staffing agencies send employees out to work at a host of other company’s facilities. Do those employees become employees of the other companies for purposes of workers’ […]

by Robert S. Stickley, Esq. and Connor J. Thomson, CPCU, WRP  Robert S. Stickley, Esq., is the Founding Partner of Stickley Law, LLC, a boutique insurance defense law firm based in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, region.  […]

Juneau, AK (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It would make sense that if you hired your friend to do some work around the house for you, even if you paid them, it probably wouldn't trigger workers' compensation coverage. […]

Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Back in 2020, California voters enacted Proposition 22, which went on to become Business and Professions Code Section 7451. That law turned back a previous legislative act in the Golden State […]

Compliance Corner Catonsville, MD (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Like many states, Maryland has rules in place for when an employer fails to secure compensation for all covered employees. As detailed on Simply Research, those rules are as […]

Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The term "ineffective assistance of counsel" most often refers to criminal defendants' Constitutional rights and what arguments they have at their disposal following a less-than-desirable outcome in the guilty-or-not phase of […]