LEGAL RESEARCH GENERALLY

To Use the Search Panel for Legal Research, Click on “Streamlined Research” At the Top of the Page for Guidance—Searches for Single Strong Words or Phrases (in Quotation Marks) Work Best.

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION is a fairly self-contained area of the law. Keywords chosen from the following list of issues and terms should facilitate searches in the “Workers’ Compensation” database category.

Railway Workers;

Federal Employer’s Liability Act (FELA);

Treatment Guidelines (apply out of state, etc.);

Alcohol (injured employee’s use of alcohol on the job);

Exclusive Remedy;

Employer’s Failure to Maintain a Workers’ Compensation Policy;

General Municipal Law 207-a Benefits (police officers, etc.);

Mental Health Problems;

Special Employees;

Parking Garage (injury in employer’s parking garage, etc.);

Schedule Loss of Use (SLU) Benefits;

Temporary Total Disability;

Temporary Partial Disability;

Stress, Anxiety and Phobias;

Nonschedule Permanent Partial Disability;

Permanent Partial Disability;

Notice (evidence considered by Board, etc.)’

Commuting (injury going to work not covered, etc.)’

Workers’ Compensation Trust;

Alter Ego of Employer;

Grave Injury;

Sidewalk Slip and Fall (outside employer’s building, etc.);

Traffic Accident (road owned by employer, etc.);

Parking Lot (slip and fall in employer’s parking lot, etc.);

Out of State Injury;

Occupational Disease (repetitive movements, etc.);

Accidental Injury (versus occupational disease, etc.);

Pre-Existing Conditions;

Strokes;

Heart Attacks;

Lost Wages Calculation;

Wage-Earning Capacity;

Loss of Wage-Earning Capacity;

Restrooms, Injury Walking To;

Settlements;

Litigation Costs;

Attachment to Labor Market;

Comparable Work;

Asbestos;

Sedentary Employment;

Light Work;

Death Benefits;

Unwitnessed Accidents;

Substantial Evidence;

Prostate Cancer (toxins, etc.);

Toxins (exposure at work, etc.);

Unreported Income;

Care by Family Members;

Attorney’s Fees (reimbursement, filling out application form, etc.);

Self-Insurance Trust;

Noise;

Amputation;

Full-Time Work (eligibility or benefits, etc.);

Collateral Source;

Special Fund;

Uninsured Employer;

Scope of Employment;

Reimbursement of Employer;

Indemnification;

Subject Matter Jurisdiction (out of state injury, etc.);

Causal Connection;

Closed Claims (reopen, etc.);

Expedited Permanency Hearing;

Failure to Timey Serve Employers;

Piercing the Corporate Veil;

Pilots;

Sky-Diving Instructors;

Labor Law (not an employee under Workers’ Compensation Law, employee under Labor Law, etc.);

Notice to Carrier (failure to inform, etc.);

Special Disability Fund;

General Municipal Law 205-e Benefits (police officers, etc.);

Permission to Settle;

Vocational Factors.