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top bizarre cases for 2012 |
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 The Top 10 Bizarre Workers' Comp Cases for 2012, by Thomas A. Robinson. During the past several Januarys, I've shared with readers my annual list of bizarre workers' compensation cases for the prior year. In doing so, I reenact, in part, a tradition that my mentor, Arthur Larson, and I shared prior to his death some years ago....One thing we always kept in mind: one must always be respectful of the fact that while a case might be bizarre in an academic sense, it was intensely real. It affected real lives and real families. And so, to continue in the spirit of that January ritual, here follows my list (in no particular order) of 10 bizarre workers' compensation cases, including a "bonus case", during 2012. Read it.
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Larson's on traveling employee |
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Larson's Spotlight on Recent Cases: Injury From Riding Escalator Rail, by Thomas A. Robinson. A North Carolina appellate court recently affirmed a decision by the state's Industrial Commission that awarded extensive workers' compensation benefits to an office manager who fell some 25 to 30 feet to a hard surface while trying "to ride" the railing of an escalator following a "festive" gathering for dinner and drinks associated with the employer's annual sales meeting. Read this case and other cases on Special Employer, Intentional Tort, and Retaliatory Discharge. |
Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter: Security Firm CEO Convicted. 
Sassy Cassy's 2012 Naughty & Nice List, by Cassandra Roberts, Esq. 
New 2012 Trends for Missouri, by Martin Klug, Esq. 
