LexisNexis is pleased to announce that Thomas A. Robinson has been named a co-author of Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law (LexisNexis) and Larson’s Workers’ Compensation, Desk Edition (LexisNexis). As such, he will work with Lex... Read More
LexisNexis has partnered with the National Workers' Compensation & Disability Conference ® ! Join your fellow LexisNexis Workers' Compensation Law Community members at this year’s National Workers' Compensation & Disability... Read More
By Thomas A. Robinson At the heart of the workers’ compensation bargain is the essential doctrine that employee fault should generally not be considered when determining the compensability of the employee’s claim. Indeed, as Dr. Larson has... Read More
Introduction In December 2011, the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute [Cambridge, MA] (“WCRI”) published its fourth annual report evaluating the effects of the so-called workers’ compensation “reforms” passed... Read More
By Thomas A. Robinson Late last Wednesday evening (April 25th), supporters of a controversial bill that would have allowed some Oklahoma employers to “opt out” of the state’s traditional workers’ compensation system [ see Oklahoma... Read More
It is axiomatic in workers’ compensation law that a subsequent injury, whether an aggravation of the original injury or a new and distinct injury, is compensable if it is the direct and natural result of a compensable primary injury [see Larson’s... Read More
Thomas A. Robinson on the Resiliency of the Exclusive Remedy Rule for Workers' Compensation, 2012 Emerging Issues 6792 . This commentary highlights the important components of the workers' compensation exclusive remedy defense and its principle... Read More
By Thomas A. Robinson A divided Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Brown v. Cassens Transp. Co. , 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 6929 (6th Cir. Apr. 6, 2012), has again reversed the dismissal of plaintiff employees’ RICO action and remanded it to the United... Read More
At the 21st Annual National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference ®, Nov. 7-9, 2012, Thomas A. Robinson, author and primary upkeep writer for Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , will speak and moderate on The Future of... Read More
A close friend of our youngest child (age-25) recently repeated a quip that I first heard years ago, during the “stagflation” of the late 1970s. Our son’s friend, who holds a degree from a respected North Carolina university, but who... Read More
Burress worked at IBP's meat-packing plant from 1987 until 1997. His first few years of work involved significant contact with hogs and hog blood and on at least one occasion during that early time frame, he cut a finger while working with the hogs... Read More
An employer ("the employer") determined that it should install special safety mats around a shear cutting machine to eliminate hazards presented when a worker stood too close to the machine. The safety mats functioned by shutting the cutting... Read More