by admin | Aug 23, 2018 | Featured, News, Workers' Compensation
By: Courtney Paterson “An idiopathic injury is one that has an unexplained origin or cause, and generally does not arise out of the employment unless ‘some condition of the employment presents a peculiar or additional hazard.’” McCaffery v. Cardinal Logistics, No....
by admin | Jul 10, 2018 | Featured, News, Workers' Compensation
Jared Renfroe, an attorney in Spicer Rudstrom’s Memphis office, recently secured a defense judgment in favor of his client in the Tennessee Court of Workers’ Compensation Claims at Nashville. The decision was not appealed, so it has become a final judgment. The facts...
by admin | Feb 28, 2018 | Featured, News, Workers' Compensation
By: Amy Markham In a workers’ compensation case in Arkansas, a claimant (injured worker) is charged with the burden of showing that the claimed injury was caused by his or her employment. However, issues of causation are not always straight-forward. In some cases, an...
by admin | Feb 15, 2018 | Featured, News, Workers' Compensation
Summary by: Jared Renfroe The Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board decided a very significant case on February 6, 2018. The case title is Christopher Batey v. Deliver This, Inc., et al., and it was heard by the Appeals Board upon both parties’...
by admin | Jan 8, 2018 | Featured, News, Workers' Compensation
By: Jared Renfroe Melissa Duck v. Cox Oil Co., No. W2016-02261-SC-WCM-WC (Tenn. Workers’ Comp. Panel Sept. 19, 2017) In this case, the employee clocked in for work but then refused to do her duties requested by her supervisor. She promptly gathered her things and was...
