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Thomas A. Robinson
4 months ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Texas: Court Utilizes Going and Coming Rule to Bar Recovery in Tort Action
A Texas appellate court held the so-called “going and coming” rule in the workers’ compensation sphere could be utilized to bar recovery against an employer in a civil action that alleged the employer’s employee was negligent in...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 1 year ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Texas: Exclusive Remedy Defense Bars Worker's Suit Against Employer for Dog Bite at Work
A Texas appellate court affirmed a trial court's decision granting summary judgment to an employer in a tort suit filed against it by a plaintiff-employee who alleged a co-employee brought a dog to work and the dog bit the plaintiff during the workday...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 1 year ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
United States: Employee's Tort Action Against Non-Conforming Employer May Not be Removed
A Texas injured employee's tort action against a non-subscribing employer arises out of common law--not from the Texas Workers' Compensation Act ("the Act")--held a federal district court sitting in the court's Western District....
Thomas A. Robinson
over 1 year ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Texas: Federal Airline Deregulation Act Does Not Preempt Texas Rules Regarding Air Ambulance Reimbursements
In an opinion at odds with several earlier decisions from federal district courts, a divided Supreme Court of Texas held the state's general standard of fair and reasonable reimbursement, as applied to air ambulance services provided to workers who...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 1 year ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Texas: High Court Clarifies Texas Version of "Substantially Certain" Test in Intentional Tort Actions Against Employers
The Supreme Court of Texas, providing a clear and exhaustive discussion of the state's special utilization of the so-called "substantially certain" standard to be utilized in intentional tort actions filed by employees against their employers...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 2 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Texas: Death Benefits Allowed For Deputy's Fatal Accident After Extra-duty Assignment
The Supreme Court of Texas held that a deputy sheriff fatal auto accident, as he traveled home in his assigned patrol car following an extra-duty assignment for a private employer, was nevertheless within the course and scope of the employment and his...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 2 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Texas: Gratuitous Provision of Company Vehicle Insufficient to Bring Commute Within Employment
Where an employer gratuitously provided a company vehicle to an employee to aid in his daily travel from his residence to a large tract of fenced ranch land containing a gas lease where the employee worked, it did not automatically bring the travel within...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 2 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
United States: Sixth Circuit Chooses to Dodge Federal Immigration Issue In Retaliatory Discharge Action
Reversing a decision of a federal district court that had ruled the retaliatory discharge provision of the Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Act was preempted by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (“IRCA”), the Sixth Circuit...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 2 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Texas: Bartering Scenario at Horse Racing Track Disqualifies Claimant from PTD Benefits
Holding that gross negligence, as described in the Texas statute that allows the family of a deceased worker to recovery exemplary damages if the workers’ death was caused by such gross negligence of the employer [see Tex. Lab. Code Ann. §...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 2 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Texas: Family of Deceased Worker Fails to Maintain Gross Negligence Action Against Employer
Construing the special exception to the Texas version of the exclusive remedy rule—that the survivors of an employee may maintain a wrongful death action against the employer if the employee's death was caused by an intentional act or omission...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 2 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Texas: Worker’s Tort Action for Fall in Parking Lot Not Barred by Exclusive Remedy Defense
Under the Texas “access doctrine”—an exception to the going and coming rule—where the employer has evidenced an intention that the employee utilize a particular access route or area in going to and from work, and where that access...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Exclusive Remedy
Federal: Since Contractor Was Required to Insure, Federal Government Was Immune From Tort Action
Affirming a decision of a federal district court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the United States could assert the exclusive-remedy provision of the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act [Tex. Lab. Code § 408.001(a)] against...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Employment Status
Texas: Oil Well Maintenance Worker Was Not a “Seaman” Under Jones Act
A oil-rig “floorman,” whose duties included assembling, cleaning, and disassembling blowout preventers and piping on oil rigs, was not a “seaman” under the Jones Act [46 U.S.C.S. §§ 30104-30105] since he failed to demonstrate...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Causation & AOE-COE Issues
Texas: Compensable Heart Attack Need Not Occur During Work Hours
A Texas appellate court, construing Tex. Lab. Code Ann. § 408.008(1), that generally requires that in order for a heart attack to be compensable, it must be identified as having occurred at “a definite time and place” and must have been...
Stuart D. Colburn
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Insurance Premiums & Rates
Texas: Performance Based Oversight (12/23/11 Update)
Beginning January 1, 2012, the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) will begin its six month collection of data to assess insurance carriers for Performance Based Oversight (PBO). The PBO period will last until June 30, 2011. The PBO measures...
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