LA Fourth Circuit, 3–2, Holds Dump-Truck Driver Paid 25% of Truck Earnings Was an Employee Despite 1099; Dissent Invokes Manifest-Error Review The Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit recently reversed...
Louisiana Court: Paid a Percentage, Still an Employee Louisiana Court: Paid a Percentage, Still an EmployeeKY Supreme Court Holds the Statutory Presumption Against Recovery for Intoxicating Substances Does Not Apply to Alcohol The Kentucky Supreme Court has affirmed benefits for a traffic flagger who was...
Alcohol Falls Outside KY’s Presumption of Causation Alcohol Falls Outside KY’s Presumption of CausationFL First DCA Holds Harlem’s Narrow “Heart Disease” Definition Does Not Bar a Firefighter’s Arrhythmia Claim Under the Heart-Lung Presumption Florida’s First District Court of Appeal has affirmed an award...
The Heart Has Wiring, Too The Heart Has Wiring, TooOregon Court Applies New Claim-Closure Requirements to Case Pending on Judicial Review The Oregon Court of Appeals has held that 2022 amendments limiting retroactive “medically stationary” determinations apply to a...
“Closed” Under Old Rules, Reprocessed Under New “Closed” Under Old Rules, Reprocessed Under NewThe Mississippi Court of Appeals recently affirmed summary judgment favoring a school district, holding that a cafeteria worker placed at an elementary school by a staffing agency was the district’s...
MS Court: Staffing Agency Worker Was School District’s “Borrowed Employee” MS Court: Staffing Agency Worker Was School District’s “Borrowed Employee”An Illinois appellate court has affirmed a nearly $5.8 million judgment in a negligence action filed by the widow of a restaurant employee who died from anaphylactic shock after eating...
IL: $5.8 Million Judgment Affirmed in Busboy’s Fatal Anaphylactic Shock Case IL: $5.8 Million Judgment Affirmed in Busboy’s Fatal Anaphylactic Shock CaseIn Teitelman v. SAIF Corp. (In re Compensation of Cardoza), 2025 Ore. LEXIS 626 (Sept. 25, 2025), the Oregon Supreme Court held that injured workers are entitled to request their...
OR High Court: Worker Entitled to Medical Examination When Insurer Uses IME to Defend Denial OR High Court: Worker Entitled to Medical Examination When Insurer Uses IME to Defend DenialIn Mercado v. Hyannis Air Service, Inc., 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 24455 (1st Cir. Sept. 22, 2025), the First Circuit vacated a district court’s grant of summary judgment in a...
First Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Puerto Rico Retaliation Case First Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Puerto Rico Retaliation CaseA New York appellate court has reversed a Workers’ Compensation Board decision that classified an injured construction worker as an employee, holding that the Board failed to apply the statutory...
NY Court Reverses Employment Classification Decision in Construction Injury Case NY Court Reverses Employment Classification Decision in Construction Injury CaseThe Ohio Supreme Court has upheld additional workers’ compensation benefits for a roofer injured in a fall, holding that merely transporting safety equipment to a jobsite does not satisfy fall-protection...
Ohio Supreme Court Affirms VSSR Award for Roofer’s Fall Through Skylight Ohio Supreme Court Affirms VSSR Award for Roofer’s Fall Through SkylightThe Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) can be applied retroactively to deny workers’ compensation coverage for treatments that were previously deemed compensable for...
Kentucky High Court Upholds Use of Disability Guidelines to Deny Long-Term Opioid Coverage Kentucky High Court Upholds Use of Disability Guidelines to Deny Long-Term Opioid CoverageThe Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that workers’ compensation settlements cannot generally bar separate tort claims when the parties expressly preserve those rights in writing. In Pierre v. MICRO-JA/X,...
GA Court Preserves Tort Rights Despite Workers’ Comp Settlement GA Court Preserves Tort Rights Despite Workers’ Comp SettlementThe Mississippi Supreme Court, stressing the derivative nature of wrongful death actions, held that because a school resource officer for a county school district would have been barred—on exclusive remedy...
The Derivative Nature of Wrongful Death Claims Proves Decisive The Derivative Nature of Wrongful Death Claims Proves DecisiveThe Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court addressed a critical procedural question for the state’s Uninsured Employers Guaranty Fund in Uninsured Employers Guaranty Fund v. Aguilar, 2025 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 162 (Sept. 9,...
PA Court Clarifies Timing Requirements for Out-of-State Workers’ Compensation Claims PA Court Clarifies Timing Requirements for Out-of-State Workers’ Compensation ClaimsThe Oklahoma Supreme Court recently delivered a significant ruling for employers in Obi Holding Co. v. Schultz-Butzbach, 2025 OK 55 (Sept. 9, 2025), clarifying that workers’ compensation claimants must continuously...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Clarifies “Active Pursuit” Requirement for Workers’ Compensation Claims Oklahoma Supreme Court Clarifies “Active Pursuit” Requirement for Workers’ Compensation ClaimsThe Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled that a public street crosswalk between a parking garage and hospital entrance did not constitute an employer’s “extended premises” under workers’ compensation law...
Virginia Court Rejects Extended Premises Claim for Crosswalk Injury Virginia Court Rejects Extended Premises Claim for Crosswalk Injury
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