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Thomas A. Robinson
over 1 year ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
North Dakota: Unusual Stress Required to Support Heart Attack Claims
Construing North Dakota’s “heart attack/stroke” statute, N.D.C.C. § 65-01-02(11)(a)(3), which generally requires that unusual stress be at least 50 percent of the cause of injury or disease—as compared with all other contributing...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 3 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Mississippi: Unwitnessed Death Found to Have Been Compensable
Observing that in Mississippi (as in a number of other states), where a worker is found dead at a place in which her duties required her to be during normal working hours, there is a presumption that the death arose out of and in the course of the employment...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 3 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
New York: Interaction Between Hair Salon Owner and Difficult Customers Insufficient to Establish Heart Attack Claim
Stressing the important role that the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board plays in the weighing of all evidence, even that offered by medical experts, a New York appellate court affirmed the Board’s determination that a hair salon owner...
Larson's Spotlight
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Employment Status
Larson’s Spotlight on Recent Cases: Illegal Immigration Status Doesn’t Bar Benefits
Larson's Spotlight on Illegal Aliens, Rehabilitation Services, Lump Sum, and Heart Attack. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's Workers' Compensation...
Larson's Spotlight
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Kentucky: ALJ’s Findings that Fatal Heart Attack Was Not Causally Linked to Employment Found Erroneous
Where uncontradicted evidence indicated that the deceased service center manager had been under extreme stress—on the day prior to the manager’s fatal heart attack he had been advised by an EPA representative that the service center’s...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
West Virginia: Fatal Heart Attack Tied to “Natural” Causes, Not Heat Exposure
In a memorandum decision, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia affirmed a decision by the state Board of Review that found a worker’s death was the result of natural causes—prior to his death, the worker suffered from obesity, high...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 5 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
New York: Presumption of Compensability Did Not Apply Despite Occurrence of Some Symptoms of Heart Attack While Still at Work
New York’s Workers’ Compensation Act includes a presumption of compensability if the employee’s injury occurs while he or she is at work [see N.Y. Work. Comp. Law § 21]. A state appellate court ruled that a widow could not take...
Larson's Spotlight
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Wyoming: Unusual Exertion Opening Mud-Caked Access Panel Means Fatal Heart Attack Was Compensable Injury
Where a heavy equipment maintenance worker died following a massive heart attack and prior to the onset of the worker’s cardiac symptoms he complained to his wife that he had great difficulty opening an access panel required to service one of his...
Larson's Spotlight
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
New York: Medical Testimony as to Possible Causes of Heart Attack Did Not Meet Evidentiary Standard
The New York Workers’ Compensation Board erred when it found that a corrections officer's work activities were causally connected to his myocardial infarction where the employer’s medical expert opined that the infarction was not caused...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
North Carolina: Undocumented Worker’s Fatal Heart Attack While Fleeing Immigration Service Raid on Employer Was Not Compensable
The death of a lumber mill employee, who came to the United States from Mexico, who had used falsified documentation to obtain employment, and who suffered a fatal heart attack as he and other undocumented workers ran from the employer’s premises...
Larson's Spotlight
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
New York: Airport Worker’s Work In Freezing Weather Causally Connected to Heart Attack
Substantial evidence supported a finding by the Board that an employee’s fatal heart attack was causally related to his employment where the decedent and others were called upon to deal with a frozen valve, the decedent was required to travel outside...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
The Top 10 Bizarre Workers’ Compensation Cases for 2014
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , is a leading commentator and expert on the law of workers’ compensation. For the past five or six years, I’ve shared...
Larson's Spotlight
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Larson’s Spotlight on Recent Cases: Idiopathic Fall From Bridge Arose From Employment
Larson's Spotlight on Idiopathic Fall, Hepatitis, Slip and Fall, and Heart Attack. 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 ...
California Compensation Cases Staff
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Treatment at Different Location Not Considered Treatment Outside MPN: Cal. Comp. Cases November Advanced Postings (11/3/2015)
Here’s the latest batch of advanced postings for the November 2015 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2015 LexisNexis. All...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Maine: Widow Awarded Death Benefits for Husband’s Death on Home Treadmill
Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed an award of workers’ compensation death benefits to the widow of a national charity’s financial advisor who died of a heart attack while exercising on a treadmill at his home. Utilizing the...
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