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Quoting Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , and finding that in addition to an impairment to a worker’s arm, he also suffered from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, an Alabama court said it was error to limit the worker’s recovery...

The Supreme Court of Connecticut held that when, under compensable circumstances, an organ of the body is removed, there is no automatic "loss" of the organ if another is transplanted into the body as a replacement. Accordingly, under Conn....

Payments made to participants in New York’s work experience program (WEP) are “wages” for purposes of the state’s workers’ compensation law [see N.Y. Workers’ Comp. Law § 2(9)], and should be utilized in computing...

Continuing a line of controversial decisions in which the survivors of a deceased employee are allowed to recover not only statutory death benefits following the death of the employee from work-related injuries or occupational diseases, but also scheduled...

Where an Ohio worker sustained partial amputation of three fingers on his left hand in an industrial accident, leaving him with a fully functioning thumb and index finger on that hand, he was not entitled to an award for total loss of use of his hand...

By William T. Barker, Partner, SNR Denton In Oubre v. Citizens Insurance Co., a divided Louisiana Supreme Court resolved a split in the courts of appeals by holding that the statutory penalty for an insurer's failure to timely initiate loss...

By William T. Barker, Partner, SNR Denton In Oubre v. Citizens Insurance Co., a divided Louisiana Supreme Court resolved a split in the courts of appeals by holding that the statutory penalty for an insurer's failure to timely initiate loss...