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Tennessee: Store Manager’s PTSD Found Compensable After Encounter With Purse Snatchers
Posted on 28 Aug 2015 by Larson's Spotlight

A store manager who sustained injuries in her employer’s parking lot after she pursued two persons, posing as customers, who stole her purse from the store, could recover workers’ compensation benefits for psychological injuries in the nature... Read More

Tags: parking lot , street risk rule , post-traumatic stress disorder , causal connection , PTSD , employer’s premises , employer’s parking lot , Tennessee workers compensation

Five Recent Workers’ Comp Cases You Should Know About (9/30/2011) – Security Guard’s Injuries After He Left Assigned Area Were Not In Course of Employment
Posted on 2 Oct 2011 by Larson's Spotlight

Larson's Spotlight on Course of Employment, Employer's Parking Lot, Earnings, Retaliatory Discharge, and Untimely Filing of Claim. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer... Read More

Tags: RIF , repossess , reduction in force , statute of limitaions , earnings , untimely filing of claim , course of employment , retaliatory discharge , assigned work area , loss of earnings , employer’s parking lot

The Top 10 Bizarre Workers’ Compensation Cases for 2014
Posted on 31 Dec 2014 by Thomas A. Robinson

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... Read More

Tags: knife , drug addiction , operating room , family argument , psychiatric treatment , social outing , surgical procedure , drunk , murder , post-traumatic stress disorder , surgeon , undocumented worker , Gun , food store , shooting , quadriplegic , tax fraud , recreational drug use , bizarre workers' comp cases , rainmaking , motorcycle accident , traveling employee , Marketing , adjustment disorder , PTSD , robber , business-related networking , personal motive , dune buggy , client entertainment , employer’s parking lot , murder-for-hire , physical violence , robbery , inpatient care , attendant care , physician's assistant , heart attack

Five Recent Workers’ Comp Cases You Should Know About (9/30/2011) – Security Guard’s Injuries After He Left Assigned Area Were Not In Course of Employment
Posted on 2 Oct 2011 by Larson's Spotlight

Larson's Spotlight on Course of Employment, Employer's Parking Lot, Earnings, Retaliatory Discharge, and Untimely Filing of Claim. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer... Read More

Tags: RIF , repossess , reduction in force , statute of limitaions , earnings , untimely filing of claim , course of employment , retaliatory discharge , assigned work area , loss of earnings , employer’s parking lot