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employers/insurers who treat ebola as occupational disease do so at their peril |
Workers in any profession can show a work connection to ebola and need not prove that ebola is a risk peculiar to their job
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., our Feature National Columnist, is a leading commentator and expert on the law of workers' compensation.
 Employers and insurance carriers who treat ebola as an occupational disease and who think that they are "immune" from comp claims because the risk of contracting the deadly virus is not "peculiar" to their industry, do so at their peril. While the risks of ebola do appear to be greater among health care workers, its suddenness of onset, even in the face of significant precautions, suggests that ordinary workers' compensation rules related to injuries by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment will apply and not those related to occupational diseases. Where there is a clear causal connection...read more. |
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LARSON'S SPOTLIGHT ON RECENT CASES |
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., our Feature National Columnist, is a leading commentator and expert on the law of workers' compensation.
Pennsylvania: Safety Meeting Held Before Shift Does Not Create Special Mission. A Pennsylvania appellate court affirmed a decision denying a claim of an employee who sustained injuries in an auto accident as he traveled to a safety meeting held before the beginning of one...read more.
Oregon: Medical Services Need Not Be Directed Towards a Cure. A flight attendant suffered a compensable injury arising from an accident aboard one of the employer's aircraft-she claimed she had been subjected to abnormal cabin pressurization and that the resulting symptoms required medical...read more.
Ohio: Dual Purpose (Marks v. Gray) Rule Again Rejected. A divided Supreme Court of Ohio has again refused to follow the so-called "dual purpose" rule established in an early New York decision...read more.
Alaska: TTD Benefits Denied Where Claimant Voluntarily Left Workforce. The Supreme Court of Alaska affirmed in relevant part a decision denying TTD benefits to a claimant on the basis that the claimant voluntarily quit his position and left the workforce for reasons unrelated to his original injury...read more. |
Employers/Insurers Who Treat Ebola as Occupational Disease Do So at Their Peril
Thank Heaven for Little Girls...and "Clean Claims" in Delaware, by Cassandra Roberts, Esq. 
