In my prior life as corporate safety director, a maintenance crew was sent to set up machinery overseas. A report came back, the crew arrived to perform the work and, upon learning no safety equipment […]

WCRI (Workers Compensation Research Institute) recently released the results of their newest study on how psychosocial factors have a direct correlation to the outcome of Workers Comp claims.  They interviewed stakeholders in the Workers Comp […]

The defense brief has now been submitted to California Supreme Court for review on the question of whether the workers’ compensation act does bars a claim against an employer by a household contact of an […]

Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- An employee can establish FMLA interference even if the employer did not actually deny him leave--at least, in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. In fact, merely discouraging an employee from pursuing a […]

Citrus Harvesting Inc. did not maintain an effective heat illness plan for workers’ safety DUETTE, FL – A federal workplace safety investigation has found a 35-year-old farmworker died from heat illness on a Duette farm in […]

Every few months, I try to stop and compile similarities in questions that we receive – (often now in person) for articles and to hone our Workers Comp advice.  Workers Comp does not really ever […]

This did not need to happen. Nicole Piggott remembers saying these six words to herself at the funeral of an employee who worked as a railway engineer during her years in the mining industry. The worker […]

Since the birth of case management in the workers’ compensation industry, payers and employers have struggled to quantify the impact that case management has on a claim. Questions surrounding whether case management saves money on […]