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Iowa: Modest Deviation from Ordinary Route Was Insufficient to Remove In-Home Healthcare Nurse From Her Employment
Posted on 31 Jul 2019 by Thomas A. Robinson

Where a registered nurse provided in-home health care services and sustained injuries in an automobile accident as she traveled to her first patient of the day, her injuries arose out of and in the course of the employment, held an Iowa appellate court... Read More

Tags: in-home health care , deviation , deviation from employment

California: WCAB Applies Neri Hernandez to Home Health Care Services Cases
Posted on 7 Aug 2014 by Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter

The WCAB has issued two noteworthy panel decisions involving home health care services in light of Neri Hernandez (en banc). In each of these decisions, which involved critically injured workers, the WCAB has signaled in very strong terms that it will... Read More

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