Driscoll Agrees with the Larson Standard, Then Affirms Without Needing It The Iowa Court of Appeals has affirmed the denial of workers’ compensation benefits to a city employee who developed...
Issue Commentary: Iowa Looks at Vaccine‑Injury Compensability—and Leaves the Real Question for Another Day Issue Commentary: Iowa Looks at Vaccine‑Injury Compensability—and Leaves the Real Question for Another DayDriscoll Agrees with the Larson Standard, Then Affirms Without Needing It The Iowa Court of Appeals has affirmed the denial of workers’ compensation benefits to a city employee who developed...
Issue Commentary: Iowa Looks at Vaccine‑Injury Compensability—and Leaves the Real Question for Another Day Issue Commentary: Iowa Looks at Vaccine‑Injury Compensability—and Leaves the Real Question for Another DayIn *Sairafianpour v. Loudoun County Public Schools*, 2026 Va. App. LEXIS 430 (Aug. 11, 2026), the Court of Appeals of Virginia affirmed a Workers’ Compensation Commission decision awarding medical benefits...
VA: One Basket, Two Injuries—and Only One Compensable Accident VA: One Basket, Two Injuries—and Only One Compensable AccidentIn Granite School District v. Young, 2026 UT 29, 2026 Utah LEXIS 113 (Aug. 13, 2026), the Utah Supreme Court affirmed an award of permanent total disability benefits to a...
UT Supreme Court Affirms PTD Award—and Rejects Employer’s Claim to Employee’s Debt-Collection Settlement UT Supreme Court Affirms PTD Award—and Rejects Employer’s Claim to Employee’s Debt-Collection SettlementIn a noteworthy decision addressing the intersection of toxic exposure, reproductive injury, and workers’ compensation exclusivity, a Washington state appellate court recently held that a child conceived after an employee’s...
Washington Court Allows “Preconception” Negligence Claim Against Employer — Exclusive Remedy Defense Rejected Washington Court Allows “Preconception” Negligence Claim Against Employer — Exclusive Remedy Defense RejectedFL’s Professional Athlete Exclusion Dooms Physician’s Use of MN’s exclusivity protection A Florida appellate court has rejected a Florida physician’s attempt to invoke Minnesota workers’ compensation immunity in a wrongful...
Florida Court Rejects Minnesota Immunity Claim Florida Court Rejects Minnesota Immunity ClaimToxic Fumes, Fraud Allegations, and Workers’ Compensation Exclusivity A federal district court in Colorado has held that workers’ compensation exclusivity barred tort claims brought by flight attendants who allegedly suffered...
Colorado Federal Court Dismisses Flight Attendants’ Tort Claims Against Frontier Airlines Colorado Federal Court Dismisses Flight Attendants’ Tort Claims Against Frontier AirlinesThe Minnesota Supreme Court has affirmed a court of appeals ruling that the co-employee immunity provision of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act does not protect motor vehicle owners from vicarious...
MN Supreme Court: Co-employee Immunity Doesn’t Shield Vehicle Owner from Vicarious Liability MN Supreme Court: Co-employee Immunity Doesn’t Shield Vehicle Owner from Vicarious LiabilityEstes and Leighton Decisions Reshape Statute-of-Limitations Analysis in Compensation Cases In a pair of recent decisions, the Florida First District Court of Appeal has overruled more than twenty-five years of...
Florida Rewrites Tolling Rules Florida Rewrites Tolling RulesCalifornia workers' compensation costs per claim rose 6 percent in 2025, continuing a pattern of sustained growth that began in 2022, with all three major cost components contributing to the...
California Workers’ Comp Costs Continued Upward Trend in 2025, WCRI Study Finds California Workers’ Comp Costs Continued Upward Trend in 2025, WCRI Study FindsThe Appellate Division, Third Department, has affirmed a Workers’ Compensation Board finding that a deceased worker’s adult autistic son was dependent upon him at the time of his COVID-19 death,...
NY Court Affirms Dependent Adult Child Finding in COVID-19 Death Claim NY Court Affirms Dependent Adult Child Finding in COVID-19 Death ClaimWorkers’ compensation exclusivity is often discussed in broad terms, but difficult questions sometimes arise at the margins—particularly when an employee alleges misconduct not in causing the original injury, but in...
Federal Court Holds PA’s Exclusivity Bars Tortious Interference Claim Federal Court Holds PA’s Exclusivity Bars Tortious Interference ClaimLawyers are paid to draft agreements carefully. Contracts define relationships, allocate risk, and—at least in theory—clarify who stands in what legal posture to whom. But in workers’ compensation law, labels...
Substance Over Form: TN Court Looks Past Contract Label in Borrowed Employee Dispute Substance Over Form: TN Court Looks Past Contract Label in Borrowed Employee DisputeNo Reliable Proof of Increased Occupational Risk As the first wave of COVID-19 workers’ compensation litigation begins to settle into the books, appellate courts are leaving behind decisions that will...
Texas Court Rejects COVID-19 Death Claim Texas Court Rejects COVID-19 Death ClaimWorkers’ compensation immunity is often described as the product of a grand bargain: employers assume no-fault liability for workplace injuries, and in return receive protection from civil tort suits. But...
FL Court Rejects Workers’ Comp Immunity Defense Where No Subcontract Ever Existed FL Court Rejects Workers’ Comp Immunity Defense Where No Subcontract Ever ExistedReporting an Injury Alone Does Not Trigger Retaliation Protection In Delaware, an employee does not “claim” or “attempt to claim” workers’ compensation benefits merely by informing an employer of an...
Delaware High Court Clarifies What Counts as “Claiming” Workers’ Compensation Delaware High Court Clarifies What Counts as “Claiming” Workers’ Compensation
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