A Louisiana appellate court affirmed a trial court’s decision granting summary judgment to an employer in a civil action filed by a worker who sustained injuries in an elevator incident on the employer’s premises approximately one-half hour... Read More

Quoting Larson's Workers' Compensation Law , both on the general issue of causation (§ 46.03) and also regarding the doctrine of unexplained falls (§ 7.04), the Supreme Court of Utah affirmed an award of benefits to a worker who sustained... Read More

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... Read More

The South Carolina Supreme Court has held that a state university professor, who sustained injuries when she was struck by a car as she crossed a public road that separated the university’s library, where she had been working, and a university parking... Read More

Larson's Spotlight on Premises Doctrine, Intentional Tort, Occupational Disease, and Covered Situs. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's Workers' Compensation... Read More

An IRS employee, who sustained injuries in an auto-pedestrian accident that occurred in an employee-designated parking lot, may not maintain another IRS employee; workers’ compensation was her exclusive remedy, held a Utah appellate court. Quoting... Read More

Where a claimant’s injury occurred on a public street as she crossed from one of several parking lots provided by the employer to her workplace, her injuries did not arise out of and in the course of her employment, held a state appellate court... Read More