Section 306(b)(3) of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act generally requires an employer to provide a specific written notice to a claimant if it seeks to modify existing workers’ compensation benefits based, inter alia, on medical evidence establishing that...
What does a claimant have to prove for work-related stress when their job is inherently stressful? Mantia v MoDot, 2015 MoWCLR Lexis 39 (lexis.com), 2015 MoWCLR Lexis 39 (Lexis Advance) (April 28, 2015) charts a much lower bar for claimants to receive compensation...
A state prosecutor worked for nine years at Jackson County and claims working too hard made him depressed, impaired his ability to concentrate and rendered him unemployable. Kersten v Jackson County , 2015 Mo WCLR Lexis 19 (lexis.com), 2015 Mo WCLR Lexis 19 (Lexis...
Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed an award of workers’ compensation death benefits to the widow of a national charity’s financial advisor who died of a heart attack while exercising on a treadmill at his home. Utilizing the presumption found in 39-A M...
In 2001, the WCAB issued its en banc decision in Rolda v. Pitney Bowes, Inc. (2001) 66 Cal. Comp. Cases 241 . Labor Code §3208.3 provides that in order for a psychiatric injury to be compensable, certain conditions must be satisfied. Labor Code §3208...
A sure sign of the concern mounting over the rate of obesity in the U.S. is the number of studies that are coming out analyzing the issue from a myriad of different angles. One of the most recent, Adiposity Predicts Self-Reported Frequency of Poor Health Days Among...
American waistlines are expanding, with the adult obesity rate estimated by some to be as high as 40%. The obesity rate in the workforce has historically been lower than that of the general population, but this too is on the increase. Obese workers reportedly have...
An employer investigated a hospital technician for alleged threats that she would like to bring a gun and shoot everyone at work and was mad enough at times to do it herself. Davis v Mo Baptist Medical Center, 2014 Mo WCLR Lexis 42 (March 28, 2014) (lexis.com...
New study is first of its kind By Teresa McLoughlin Rice, Esq. Open a newspaper, turn on the news, and there is seemingly yet another report that workers are feeling increasingly stressed. The reasons for this apparent increase are multi-faceted and the subject...
Larson's Spotlight on Psychic Injury, AMA Guides, Traveling Employee, and Subrogation. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's Workers' Compensation Law , has compiled...
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