In an unusual case that turned on the “peculiar” wording of New Mexico’s statutory going and coming rule, the Court of Appeals of New Mexico affirmed a decision by a...
New Mexico Court Discusses State’s “Peculiar” Going and Coming Rule New Mexico Court Discusses State’s “Peculiar” Going and Coming RuleA Louisiana appellate court recently affirmed a determination by a WCJ that a pharmacy technician’s injuries resulting from a fall at her computer station after she had suffered a one-time...
Employee Recovers for Idiopathic Fall Under Louisiana’s Positional Risk Doctrine Employee Recovers for Idiopathic Fall Under Louisiana’s Positional Risk DoctrineIn a recent decision that outlines and clarifies several important issues related to injuries in an employer-owned or controlled parking lot, an Ohio appellate court reversed a trial court’s determination...
Ohio Court Stresses Not All Employer Parking Lot Injuries are Compensable Ohio Court Stresses Not All Employer Parking Lot Injuries are CompensableObserving that after a 2007 amendment to S.C Code § 42-9-390, an agreement settling a workers’ compensation dispute no longer had to be approved by the Commission if both parties...
Signed Mediation Agreement Binds Employer/Carrier to $1 Million Payment in Spite of Worker’s Death Seven Days After Mediation Signed Mediation Agreement Binds Employer/Carrier to $1 Million Payment in Spite of Worker’s Death Seven Days After MediationAn Ohio appellate court disagreed with the trial court’s conclusion that a social worker was a fixed situs employee whose injuries sustained when he slipped and fell in a restaurant...
Ohio Social Worker’s Slip and Fall Injuries in Icy Restaurant Parking Lot Did Not Arise from His Employment Ohio Social Worker’s Slip and Fall Injuries in Icy Restaurant Parking Lot Did Not Arise from His EmploymentWhere a Pennsylvania construction worker, who had been rendered a paraplegic in a compensable workplace injury, obtained a bona fide estimate indicating it would cost more than $119,000 to to...
PA Court: Employer Need Not Pay Estimated Cost of Modifying Paraplegic’s Current Home Toward Purchase of New Home PA Court: Employer Need Not Pay Estimated Cost of Modifying Paraplegic’s Current Home Toward Purchase of New Home