Injured PA Workers’ Comp Attorney Should Have Been Reimbursed for Cost of Cannabinoid (CBD) Oil Prescription

Issue Commentary: PA’s Commonwealth Court Parses Words to Require Employer/Carrier to Pay for Medical Marijuana

Medical Marijuana Within the Context of Workers’ Compensation Claims

NM Court Limits Cannabis Reimbursement to Amount Set in Fee Schedule

In an unpublished opinion, the Court of Appeals of New Mexico affirmed a decision by a state workers’ compensation judge that denied an injured worker’s request for full reimbursement of...

NV Cannabis Dispensary’s Employee Might Recover for Injuries Sustained in Altercation with Customer

Finding that a Nevada appeals officer had focused too narrowly on an employee’s work-related duties and had not considered the totality of the circumstances in determining if the employee’s injury...

MN Supreme Court Says No to Mandatory Reimbursement for Medical Marijuana

In two companion decisions, a divided Supreme Court of Minnesota held that the state’s Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals (WCCA) lacks jurisdiction to decide whether federal law preempts Minnesota law...

Opinion Mondays: NY Recreational Marijuana Law Could End Most Post-Injury Cannabis Testing

For some time now, in many states, when a worker has sustained a work-related injury requiring treatment at an emergency department or hospital, he or she typically has had two...

NH High Court Issues Ruling on Medical Marijuana for Injured Worker—Sort of

Opinion Raises as Many Questions as It Answers Last Thursday (March 7), the Supreme Court of New Hampshire handed down a decision that reversed, in pertinent part, a state Appeals...

New Mexico Employer Need Not Accommodate Medical Marijuana Use

An employer need not accommodate a New Mexico employee’s use of medical marijuana, even when that use is sanctioned under the state’s Compassionate Use Act (“CUA”), held a federal district...