What Do You Think? Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The “odd-lot” theory allows claimants to obtain permanent total disability benefits where they cannot find work, despite diligently searching. But what if the employee, while not working, […]

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? Lima, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Employers are entitled to require a fitness-for-duty certification from a doctor before reinstating an employee who is on FMLA leave. But can they go beyond that by […]

What Do You Think? Hilton Head, SC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workers compensation is generally available for an injury that occurs in the course and scope of employment. A South Carolina case delves into the question of […]

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’ […]

What Do You Think? Vancouver, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employee in Washington state may be able to justify her failure to attend an IME if she can show she had good cause for doing so. […]

What Do You Think? Sandy, OR (WorkersCompensation.com) – Is a spouse entitled to workers’ compensation death benefits if, prior to the employee’s death, the couple separated and were living apart? Under Oregon law, is there a […]

What Do You Think? Louisville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- From time to time at the News Desk, we find ourselves going down a long backstretch of workers' compensation research, and such was the case this week […]