Exclusive remedy does not prohibit the estate of a deceased worker from suing the worker's former employer for negligence when the estate is otherwise time-barred
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The Philadelphia Police Department does not owe benefits or penalties for terminating benefits it was paying to a police officer who missed more than a
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The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission failed to account for the effect of retirement on an injured worker's diminished earning capacity when it incorrectly calculated wage
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The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission correctly determined that an injured worker's proposed earnings were too speculative to require his employer to pay temporary partial disability
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A Louisiana appellate court upheld a jury verdict in favor of an injured janitorial worker for her injuries from a fall on a school premises.
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Members of a panel created to advise California work comp regulators about updates to the state's prescription drug formulary on Wednesday appeared to have more
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The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld an award of death benefits to a cancer-stricken firefighter’s widow, as well as an assessment of penalties against his employer
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A Republican lawmaker introduced bills that would tighten Illinois' causation standards, reduce certain schedule loss of use awards to what they were two decades ago
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A California appeals court upheld a trial court's determination that a worker was required to arbitrate her claims for false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional
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The federal court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment to Costco Wholesale Corp., dismissing an injured worker's wrongful termination and Fair Employment
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