Where a Pennsylvania construction worker, who had been rendered a paraplegic in a compensable workplace injury, obtained a bona fide estimate indicating it would cost more than $119,000 to to...
PA Court: Employer Need Not Pay Estimated Cost of Modifying Paraplegic’s Current Home Toward Purchase of New Home PA Court: Employer Need Not Pay Estimated Cost of Modifying Paraplegic’s Current Home Toward Purchase of New HomeA hospital nurse, who fractured her humerus in a fall in her employer’s emergency room when her coat apparently became ensnarled in a wheelchair, did not sustain an injury arising...
Ohio Nurse’s Fall in Hospital ER Was Outside Course and Scope of Employment Ohio Nurse’s Fall in Hospital ER Was Outside Course and Scope of EmploymentIt is one thing to modify an injured employee’s vehicle so as to accommodate his wheelchair or scooter. It is quite another to provide the employee with necessary transportation assistance...
Virginia Court Requires Insurer to Provide Transportation to Doctor’s Office In Spite of Fact That It Already Paid to Modify Vehicle Virginia Court Requires Insurer to Provide Transportation to Doctor’s Office In Spite of Fact That It Already Paid to Modify Vehicle