My understanding is that in the field of workers' compensation law, one must frequently determine whether an injury arose "in the course of employment." This case presented the question whether that could be true of a broken wrist suffered when…
Those of you who work with the rules governing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's "Hazard Communication Standard" (not to be confused with the Department of Homeland Security's color-coded "Homeland Security Advisory System," which has at long last been ditched) will…
Question Presented Did the judge correctly rule that an employee was entitled to workers' compensation because the work-related events she experienced were the "predominant contributing cause of [her emotional] disability"? The Facts Mr. Grillo agreed to provide [medical] insurance [only]…
On November 23, the Utah Supreme Court reversed the dismissal of Chad Hudgens' claims against his former employer, Prosper, Inc., and his former supervisor. The court did not reach the merits, holding simply that the lower court should have let…
Headlines claiming he kicked the giant human tomato in the head are inaccurate.
Opinions vary about how much you should tip hotel employees, but in this situation, there is general agreement that it should be zero dollars. A Los Angeles woman is suing the Hyatt hotel chain, alleging that she returned to her…
Steven Seagal is weird, but this lawsuit was weirder still.
I hope that since April 26 you have been able to spend some time contemplating the stupendous ginormitude of the one sentence that comprises the Mittal Steel Point order, each of its 538 words so carefully chosen and placed with…
Two recent stories again make the point that if you have decided to commit fraud by falsely claiming to be disabled, you really should try not to draw attention to your not-disabled self. Ronald Hunt, an interior designer in California,…
One of the bad habits that lawyers have trouble breaking is using all capital letters, especially in the headings of legal documents. (Okay, not nearly as interesting as the bad habits Tiger Woods has trouble breaking, but I think enough…