MS Employer/Carrier Not Entitled to Reimbursement for Second Medical Opinion Out of Injured Employee’s Third-Party Recovery

Injured PA Workers’ Comp Attorney Should Have Been Reimbursed for Cost of Cannabinoid (CBD) Oil Prescription

Medical Marijuana Within the Context of Workers’ Compensation Claims

MN High Court Says Injured Worker Failed to Establish Exception Allowing Long-Term Opioid Use

In a carefully crafted decision dealing with a chronic problem both within and without the workers’ compensation world—long-term opioid use—the Supreme Court of Minnesota held an injured workers treatment with...

NJ Supreme Court Agrees Employer May Be Required to Reimburse for Medical Marijuana

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of New Jersey, in Hager v. M&K Construction, 2021 N.J. LEXIS 332 (April 13, 2021), affirmed a decision of the state’s Appellate Division that earlier had...

Michigan Employee's Massage Therapy Was Not Compensable

A Michigan appellate court vacated a ruling by the Michigan Compensation Appellate Commission (MCAC) requiring an employer to reimburse an injured employee for massage therapy services where the services were...

Medical Benefits Must be “Reasonable and Necessary”—Not Just Beneficial

Virginia Employer Need Not Provide Specialized “Running Blade” Prosthesis While all but a few American jurisdictions require employers to provide medical benefits that are essentially unlimited in terms of duration...

Memo to Worker’ Comp Carrier: Standing on Your Rights Can Result in Scorched Feet

Tennessee Appeals Panel Affirms $27K Attorney’s Fee Related to $187 Medical Claim In Grissom v. UPS, 2017 Tenn. LEXIS 4 (Jan. 9, 2017), the Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel of the...

Pennsylvania: Massage Therapy By LPN Held to be Compensable Expense

A Pennsylvania appellate court, reversing a decision of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, recently held that since a licensed practical nurse (LPN) was a “health care provider” under §...