An employee’s civil action filed against her employer alleging intentional infliction of emotional distress following a workplace dog bite is barred by the exclusive remedy provision of the Connecticut Workers’...
CT Employer’s Videotape Sinks Employee’s Emotional Distress Tort Claim CT Employer’s Videotape Sinks Employee’s Emotional Distress Tort ClaimIn Brown v. Burlington Coat Factory of Texas, Inc., 2025 Mich. App. LEXIS 5524 (Mich. Ct. App. July 11, 2025), the Michigan Court of Appeals reaffirmed the narrow scope of...
Michigan Court Rejects Intentional Tort Claim in Fatal Workplace Shooting Michigan Court Rejects Intentional Tort Claim in Fatal Workplace ShootingThe Minnesota Supreme Court, in a divided decision, has issued a significant decision that potentially expands workers’ compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) claims, particularly those brought by first...
Minnesota Supreme Court Clarifies PTSD Coverage for First Responders Minnesota Supreme Court Clarifies PTSD Coverage for First RespondersIn Buchanan v. Town of East Hartford, 2025 Conn. App. LEXIS 208 (July 15, 2025), the Connecticut Appellate Court, reversing a decision of the state’s Compensation Review Board, reinstated an...
CT ALJ’s Dismissal of Survivor’s Claim Reinstated—Board Improperly Reweighed Suicide Causation Evidence CT ALJ’s Dismissal of Survivor’s Claim Reinstated—Board Improperly Reweighed Suicide Causation EvidenceIn Hernandez v. Associated Wholesale Grocers, 2025 Neb. App. LEXIS 374 (Neb. Ct. App. July 1, 2025) (not designated for permanent publication). the Nebraska Court of Appeals affirmed the Workers’...
Nebraska Court Affirms Denial of Benefits for Post-Accident Knee Surgery Nebraska Court Affirms Denial of Benefits for Post-Accident Knee SurgerySurveillance footage doesn’t always tell the whole story—but sometimes it tells just enough. In a recent decision, the Court of Appeals upheld the state Industrial Commission’s denial of workers’ compensation...
Caught on Camera: Surveillance Undermines NC Claimant’s Testimony Caught on Camera: Surveillance Undermines NC Claimant’s TestimonyTwo recent decisions from the New Mexico Supreme Court—Pena v. State, 2025-NMSC-007, 2025 N.M. LEXIS 138 (June 27, 2025), and Hanrahan v. State, 2025-NMSC-008, 2025 N.M. LEXIS 139 (June 27,...
Who Sets the Fee? Two New Mexico Decisions Clarify the State’s Comp Law Who Sets the Fee? Two New Mexico Decisions Clarify the State’s Comp LawIn a case of first impression, a deeply divided (4–3) Maryland Supreme Court recently held that the exclusive remedy provisions of the state’s Workers' Compensation Act bar a wrongful death...
Maryland High Court Bars Wrongful Death Suit Against Employer by Non-Dependent Child Maryland High Court Bars Wrongful Death Suit Against Employer by Non-Dependent ChildA recent decision from the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania offers important guidance for workers’ compensation practitioners navigating COVID-19 vaccination mandate disputes. The court held that an employee’s well-documented religious and...
PA Court: Good Faith COVID Vaccination Refusal Doesn’t Amount to Wilful Misconduct PA Court: Good Faith COVID Vaccination Refusal Doesn’t Amount to Wilful MisconductWhen Retaliatory Discharge First Became Judicially Recognized Before 1973, in many states that followed the common-law doctrine of employment-at-will, a worker fired for asserting the right to workers’ compensation benefits...
Throwback Thursday: Frampton v. Central Indiana Gas Co. (Ind. 1973) Throwback Thursday: Frampton v. Central Indiana Gas Co. (Ind. 1973)The Louisiana Supreme Court recently clarified the scope of the state’s unique “manual labor exception” to workers’ compensation immunity, holding that the exception does not extend to the employees or...
Louisiana Supreme Court Narrows State’s “Manual Labor Exception” Louisiana Supreme Court Narrows State’s “Manual Labor Exception”