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Thomas A. Robinson
over 2 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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New York: Claimant Must Always Establish Causal Connection Between Employment and Medical Condition
Where claimant's description of the circumstances of her injury differed sharply from what she told emergency medical personnel in the moments following her accident, the Board could find that the claimant had failed to establish the required causal...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 3 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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Iowa: Claimant Fails to Establish Causal Connection Between Legionnaires’ Disease and His Employment
Noting that a workers’ compensation claimant’s expert medical witnesses appeared to be completely unaware of the prophylactic measures taken by the employer to prevent contamination of its internal water system and that the employer’s...
Larson's Spotlight
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Causation & AOE-COE Issues
OHIO: Lapse of Time Between Incident and Treatment Amplifies Need for Expert Testimony on Causation
It is often said that just as the “instantaneous nature of an observed causal progression is a familiar element in cases dispensing with medical testimony, so a delay between the accident and the symptoms, disability or death diminishes any such...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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North Carolina: Court Explains Important Difference Between “Sequence” and “Consequence”
A North Carolina appellate court affirmed a state Industrial Commission decision that found, in relevant part, that a worker’s depression was causally connected to a work-related injury and, therefore, compensable. The employer contended that testimony...
Larson's Spotlight
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Larson’s Spotlight on Recent Cases: No Benefits for Salmonella Poisoning From Catered Lunch
Larson's Spotlight on Course and Scope, Exclusive Remedy, and Causal Connection. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's Workers' Compensation Law , has...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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New York: Employee Fails to Establish Claim for Allergic Aspergillosis Due to Alleged Mold at Work
A New York appellate court reversed a decision of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that concluded that an employee who worked for some 23 years at a garbage recycling and energy production facility had sustained an occupational disease...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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The Top 10 Bizarre Workers' Comp Cases for 2013
© Copyright 2014 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. For reprint permission, contact Robin.E.Kobayashi@lexisnexis.com . During the past several Januarys, I’ve shared with readers my annual list of bizarre workers’ compensation cases for...
Larson's Spotlight
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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Tennessee: Store Manager’s PTSD Found Compensable After Encounter With Purse Snatchers
A store manager who sustained injuries in her employer’s parking lot after she pursued two persons, posing as customers, who stole her purse from the store, could recover workers’ compensation benefits for psychological injuries in the nature...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
New Arthritis Study Shows O*Net Could Help Predict Chronic Disease
A recent study points to a positive and consistent relationship between O*NET ratings of physical job demands and the risk of contracting arthritis later in life. Importantly, the study also demonstrates the utility of using such O*NET job descriptors...
Larson's Spotlight
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Utah: High Court Clarifies Direct and Natural Results Test; Second Injury Compensable Only if First Injury Was “Significant Contributing Cause”
A school bus driver, who sustained a compensable back injury in 2003, when he fell down the steps of his school bus could, under an appropriate factual finding, recover additional workers’ compensation benefits when four years later a child jumped...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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Kentucky: Claimant’s Lay Testimony Insufficient to Establish Causal Connection Between Her Need for Additional Treatment and Work-Related Injuries 23 Years Earlier
Testimony by a claimant that she continued to have pain and discomfort almost 23 years after sustaining a work-related back injury, together with a physician’s notes that indicated those same complaints had been recounted to the doctor at an office...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Kansas: Employee Fails to Prove Peanut Allergy Related to Her Employment
A Kansas appellate court affirmed the denial of a worker’s claim that she had developed a peanut (or related) allergy while working at the employer’s candy factory, holding that the evidence supported the finding that she had failed to prove...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Michigan: No Retaliatory Discharge Where Injured Employee Left Work Without Appropriate Excuse
In an unpublished decision, a Michigan appellate court affirmed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment favoring an employer in an injured worker’s retaliatory discharge action, finding that plaintiff could not make the requisite showing...
Larson's Spotlight
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Oregon: Employer Need Not Pay for Additional Surgery Since Procedure Was Only Tangentially Related to Original Injury
An Oregon court held substantial evidence supported a decision by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that medical services requested by a claimant were not compensable under Or. Rev. Stat. § 656.245(1)(a), which requires the employer...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
New York: Causal Connection Between Rare Cancer and Employment Chemical Established
A New York appellate court affirmed a finding by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that the deceased employee’s ureteral cancer was causally connected to his employment exposure to a chemical, orthotoluidine. While the chemical...
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