Madison, MS (WorkersCompensation.com)–A nurse who contracts COVID-19 while working at a medical facility where the people are getting the virus left and right may, intuitively, and based on common sense, know she contracted the illness […]
Waynesville, MO (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employers’ policies often call for discipline when an employee violates an internal drug policy. It can complicate matters, however, when an employee files a workers’ compensation claim around the same time. […]
Parker, CO (WorkersCompensation.com)–To obtain workers’ compensation benefits, an employee must show that his injury arose out of his employment. But what happens when an employee falls while working and injures himself, and there’s no clear […]
Bridgeport, CT (WorkersCompensation.com)–The Heart and Hypertension Act in Connecticut provides workers’ compensation benefits to city police department employees hired before 1996. But what happens if the employee took on an entirely new job from his […]
Pearsall, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – A worker can successfully sue his employer under the ADA for failing to accommodate a disability only if he was qualified for the job. One case addresses whether an employee’s inability […]
Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Generally, Georgia’s exclusivity provision prevents an employee from suing a coworker for negligence if the injury occurred while the coworker was acting in the course of employment. But what if the […]
Syracuse, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employees who are intoxicated when they are injured generally have difficulty showing they suffered a compensable injury. But what if, despite the worker’s drinking, it was an intoxicated coworker that caused […]
Geneseo, IL (WorkersCompensation.com)–Whether someone who volunteers for a company is an employee for purposes of workers’ compensation depends on whether there was an employment contract—even an unspoken one. A case involving a pilot who volunteered […]