The language in Kan. Stat. Ann. 2019 Supp. § 44-510e(a)(2)(B) requiring use of the 6th Edition of the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment should reasonably be interpreted as a "guideline," and not a...
The Supreme Court of Kansas agreed that the widow of a worker who sustained fatal injuries in a fall at work rebutted the presumption of intoxication afforded the employer where two drug tests showed the presence of marijuana in the worker's system, but other...
Reiterating that in Kansas, because of multiple concerns, the rules of evidence do not apply to workers’ compensation hearings, a Kansas appellate court held the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board should not have excluded the results of a marijuana...
Undocumented worker can receive workers’ comp benefits in spite of false papers used in hiring process The Supreme Court of Kansas now follows the vast majority of states that the employer cannot accept the fruits of a worker’s labor and then claim that there...
Court held that providing an inadequate urine sample is not a refusal to take a drug test In Byers v. Acme Foundry, 2017 Kan. App. LEXIS 12 (Jan. 27, 2017), a Kansas appellate court recently held that the term “refusal,” as it is used in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 44...
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Reversing a decision by the state’s Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Kansas held that under the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act, an injured worker’s compensation must be reduced by any social security retirement benefits simultaneously...
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