An employer refused to pay for an employee’s medical treatment after a post-accident drug screen detected two substances in his system. So why did a court recently rule that the employee should get workers’ comp benefits? In April 2012, Shannon Bordelon received a severe injury to a finger while working for Key Energy Services in …
An insurance claims adjuster, traveling to assess hurricane damage, was found drunk and intoxicated on the beach. He says because he was a traveling employee, he deserves workers’ comp benefits for his injuries. Traveling employees are often eligible for workers’ comp in situations in which other employees usually aren’t (more about that later). But that …
A worker used an acetylene torch to cut off the top of a barrel which exploded, injuring him. When receiving medical treatment, the worker tested positive for pot. Now he wants workers’ comp. Will he get it? Employee Greg Prock was asked by his supervisor at Bull Shoals Landing to cut off the tops of …
After parking his personal vehicle in his employer’s parking lot, an employee trips over a cement parking block. He tears a ligament and is out of work for a while. Can he get workers’ comp? Christopher Snyder was a police officer for the City of Richmond, VA, police department. On July 4, 2011, he arrived …
The case of the campus cop who pepper sprayed a group of protesting students provides an interesting window into the world of workers’ comp and psychiatric injuries in California. Few will soon forget the video of former Lt. John Pike of the University of California, Davis police force. On Nov. 18, 2011, activists were seated …
What happens in Arizona doesn’t stay in Arizona when you post it on your Facebook page. And in a another case, it’s apparently “do as I say, not as I do,” when it comes to workers’ comp cases. First, the case of Michael Mallory, formerly of Ohio. While working in the Buckeye state, Mallory was …
Injuries from assaults at work don’t automatically qualify for workers’ comp benefits. In this case, the owner of a bar said the injuries a waitress received in a fight shouldn’t qualify. Melissa Crutcher worked as a waitress and cook at the New Direction Bar and Grill in Kentucky. She applied for workers’ comp benefits, alleging …
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A truck driver witnessed a fatal crash on the job. Should workers’ comp cover his treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Shaun Armstrong was driving a one-ton dump truck for the John R. Jurgensen Co. While stopped at a yield sign on an access ramp to I-70 in Ohio, a vehicle crashed into the back …
