Top 10 National Workers’ Comp Cases for 2019

For the past thirteen years, national workers’ compensation blogger, Thomas A. Robinson has compiled his Top 10 workers’ compensation cases for the year. Here is the 2019 Top Ten List. He reports

in some respects, 2019 has been relatively quiet. The frothy former days during which numbers of us argued about “Padgett,” “opt outs,” or “the gig economy” are largely behind us (IMO, there’s still plenty to be said and written, however, on all sides of that third issue) and the workers’ compensation world seems to be catching its breath so as to be able to dive back down into a host of worker/employer concerns. Still, there were a number of important constitutional cases decided during the past 12 months. There were also two important — or at least relatively important — decisions dealing with medical marijuana. And so, I take this opportunity to highlight what I think are the 10 most important workers’ comp decisions during 2019.