In a divided decision, an Arizona appellate court affirmed the denial of a police officer’s PTSD claim, agreeing with the state’s Industrial Commission that the officer had failed to show that he had been subjected to “unexpected, unusual or extraordinary” stress...
Construing a special "law enforcement" exception to Nevada's going and coming rule, the Supreme Court of Nevada held that a police officer's injuries sustained in a private motorcycle accident as he rode home after being released early one evening...
The Supreme Court of Texas held that a deputy sheriff fatal auto accident, as he traveled home in his assigned patrol car following an extra-duty assignment for a private employer, was nevertheless within the course and scope of the employment and his survivors...
That a Virginia police officer was specifically aware of the state’s special heart-lung presumption of compensability in favor of police officers and certain other types of workers did not mean the two-year statute of limitations for his cardiac condition...
Substantial evidence supported a determination by New York’s Workers’ Compensation Board that a police officer’s death from what appeared to have been a self-inflicted gunshot wound was not a “line-of-duty” death, held a state appellate court. While it was true...
A Nebraska appellate court affirmed the denial of workers’ compensation death benefits to the family of a county deputy who sustained fatal injuries in a car crash that occurred as the deputy drove his private vehicle home some five minutes after he had clocked...
In a split decision, a Florida appellate court held that a single—abnormally high —blood pressure reading taken at an employment physical eight years before a police officer’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits was not “any evidence” of hypertension under...
SPECIAL ALERT: On May 26, 2017, the WCAB, on its own motion, issued an order granting reconsideration for further study and decision in the Gravlin case. For the latest news about Gravlin , subscribe to our newsletter at www.lexisnexis.com/wcnews (select California...
In a deeply divided decision, the Supreme Court of Kansas extended the firefighter’s rule to law enforcement officers. The rule, which is applied in more than half the states [see Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , § 110.08], prohibits firefighters from suing...
A Louisiana parish sheriff’s office that administered a work release program, pursuant to which a prisoner worked for the parish “police jury” as a “hopper” on a garbage truck, was not the prisoner’s employer and did not owe a duty of providing a safe working environment...
A widow’s civil action to recover damages from the Houston Police Department related to an incident in which her husband, a police sergeant, was killed in the line of duty by a man who was present in this country illegally, and who was subsequently convicted...
In Gage v. County of Sacramento , 2016 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS --, the WCAB, reversing the WCJ in a split panel opinion, held that the defendant’s delay in the payment of disability retirement advances to the applicant deputy sheriff who suffered an industrial...
Here’s another batch of advanced postings for the January 2016 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2016 LexisNexis. All rights reserved...
Acknowledging that in light of a decision by the Washington Supreme Court, it had erred in holding that the deliberate intention exception to workers’ compensation exclusivity was to be “liberally interpreted,” a state appellate court held that even under a narrow...