Wyoming’s definition of “employee,” which includes illegal aliens only if the employer reasonably believes both at the date of hire and the date of injury, based upon documentation in the employer’s possession, that the worker was authorized to work by the federal...
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Reminding the parties that the burden of proof consists of two elements: the burden of production and the burden of persuasion, the Supreme Court of Wyoming affirmed the denial of workers’ compensation benefits for back pain that the claimant believed was...
Quoting Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law and observing that the test of liability in the workers' compensation setting is not the relation of an individual's fault or negligence to an event, as it is within the tort arena, but rather the relationship...
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. Opinion: Workers Comp No Fault System Should Be Applied to Personal Injury Cases...
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Citing Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , the Supreme Court of Wyoming recently held that an injured roustabout was not entitled to PTD benefits under the odd lot doctrine where it was clear that he could not return to his old job, but where he had failed to...
Emphasizing that the burden of proof contains two elements: (i) the burden of production and (ii) the burden of persuasion, the Supreme Court of Wyoming recently affirmed a trial court’s finding that a claimant failed to establish a causal connection between a...
Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. NATIONAL AND STATE NEWS: Workers Compensation Analysis Group Reaches 20,000...