Nebraska: Internet Search for Registered Sex Offenders Leads to Workplace Assault. A Nebraska appellate court affirmed the denial of workers' compensation benefits for an employee who sustained injuries to his nose, clavicle and shoulder when he was assaulted on the employer's premises by a co-worker...read more.

Federal: Employee's Death in Taxi Accident While He Shopped for Groceries Found Compensable Under Defense Base Act. The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an award of death benefits under the Defense Base Act to the widow of an employee who died in an auto accident in Tbilisi, Georgia, while traveling by taxi to shop for groceries...read more.

New York: Pressure to File False Reports Constitutes Unusual Level of Stress and Supports Award for Mental Injury. As is the case with a number of other states, New York allows recovery for work-related stress if the claimant can show that the stress that caused the injury was greater than that which other similarly situated workers experienced in the normal work environment...read more.

New York: Fatal Embolism Found Compensable as Unexplained Death Under § 21(1). A New York court affirmed a decision of the Workers' Compensation Board that decedent's death arose out of and in the course of his employment where the decedent collapsed and died while working as a dispatcher...read more.