August 10, 2016
A Connecticut woman who found her 77-year-old husband crushed to death under an all-terrain vehicle when she brought him lunch at his job cannot sue his employer for severe emotional injuries she suffered, the state Supreme Court ruled recently. Justices …
June 29, 2015
The New Mexico Court of Appeals cleared the way for farm and ranch laborers to receive workers’ compensation benefits by declaring a decades-old provision in state law unconstitutional. That provision, on the books since the 1930s, excludes those employees whose …
December 12, 2014
Nebraska’s Judicial Nominating Commission for the Workers’ Compensation Court has forwarded the names of three nominees to Gov. Dave Heineman for his consideration. The nominees are Shirley Williams and Anne Winner, both of Lincoln, and Julie Martin, of Omaha. The …