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A hospital nurse’s unexplained fall while walking to lunch in a level, unobstructed hospital tunnel was compensable, held the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia in a memorandum decision. The Court’s decision follows that of the majority...

Stressing that “idiopathic” and “unexplained” were not synonymous, an Arkansas appellate court agreed with an ALJ’s decision denying workers’ compensation benefits to a worker who, after experiencing severe gastrointestinal...

Finding that the New Hampshire Compensation Appeals Board (CAB) had erred in its application of the so-called “increased risk” test in an unexplained fall case before it, a state appellate court reversed and remanded the dispute in order that...

A Kansas appellate court affirmed an award of workers’ compensation benefits to a Topeka hospital housekeeping employee who sustained injuries in two separate unexplained falls. The court was not persuaded by the employer’s argument that following...

Reversing a decision by a state Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) that had ruled an employee’s injury, in the form of a fractured humerus, was not compensable because it did not arise out of and in the course of the employment, the Supreme...

Citing Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , the Supreme Court of Nebraska acknowledged that a vast majority of courts nationally had adopted the so-called, increased-risk rule, under which the effects of an idiopathic-caused fall are compensable...

Larson's Spotlight on Statute of Limitations, Structured Settlements, Special Errand, Unexplained Fall, and LHWCA Maximum Weekly Rate. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer...

An 85-year old employee fell after washing her hands in the employer's bathroom and broke her hip. The Commission denied benefits that claimant established her injury flowed from an identifiable work hazard. Porter v RPCS Inc ., 2012 Mo WCLR Lexis...

Larson's Spotlight on Deviation From Employment, Unexplained Fall, Physician's Opinion and Videotape Evidence, and Sanctions for Costs. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2010, about a fifth of all workplace fatalities in Nevada were caused by a worker falling. Almost every serious fall injury I've handled in the Nevada work comp arena in the past fifteen years was...

Stressing the crucial difference between an “unexplained” fall and an “idiopathic” fall, a North Carolina appellate court affirmed the denial of benefits to a municipal worker who suffered injuries when he fainted and collapsed...

Where an employee sustained a broken hip in a fall at work, with no clear reason for the fall, but where the employee’s medical record indicated that she suffered from various medical conditions, including diabetes mellitus type II, thyroid disease...

Larson's Spotlight on Sick Building Syndrome, Wrongful Death and Exclusive Remedy, Retaliatory Discharge, and Unexplained Fall. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for...

While a claimant certainly has the burden of proving compensability by a preponderance of the evidence, an injury that is unexplained and occurs in the course of employment is presumed, as a matter of law, to arise out of the employment. Accordingly,...

The Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed a finding by the state’s Commission that a grocery store worker had not shown that her brain injury arose out of and in the course of her employment where the worker claimed she sustained an unexplained, compensable...