LexisNexis Top Blogs for Workers' Compensation and Workplace Issues - 2013 Honorees. Maneuvering the intersection between the workers' comp world and the information highway can be daunting. In the course of any given day, the attorney, risk manager, academic, or comp world decision-maker can be so bombarded with email, phone calls, pleadings, medico-legal reports, court opinions, OSHA studies, and the like that the thought of traversing yet another source for professional enlightenment is simply a bridge too far. Yet there are blogs "out there" with valuable information. Someone "out there" has likely posted some offering that can provide additional perspective on the issues at hand. If only you didn't have to wade through the thicket "out there" to find it. Read more.

South Dakota: Cumulative Trauma Doctrine Applies to Date of Injury, Not Date of Last Compensation Payment. The Supreme Court of South Dakota, affirming a trial court's decision, agreed that the three-year statute of limitations set forth in SDCL 62-7-35.1 barred a claim where the injured employee's report of accident occurred in 2000, the claim was accepted...read more.

North Carolina: Medical Expertise Not Narrowly Defined, Oncologist Could Certainly Testify as to Esophageal Cancer. Medical experts need not be shown to be experts in the narrow field that a party contends is relevant to the issue in the case-here whether the deceased former employee's esophageal cancer resulted from asbestos exposure-it was sufficient that...read more.
 

Federal: Employer Might Be Estopped From Arguing Exclusivity. Construing Florida law, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that a federal district court improperly granted a former employer summary judgment in a civil action filed against the former employer by a former employee who contended her shoulder condition...read more.

Idaho: Statutory Employer Not Liable for Comp Payments When Injured Worker's Employment by Direct Employer Deemed "Casual". Acknowledging that the concept of a statutory employer is to prevent an employer from avoiding liability under the workers' compensation statutes by sub-contracting the work to others, the Supreme Court of Idaho recently held...read more.