New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Transportation workers’ unions are applauding changes in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that will provide them with more protections, but some would still like to see national banned […]

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Federal Aviation Administration levied its largest fines ever, nearly $160,000, against two women arrested as “unruly passengers” in 2021.  The proposed fines are just the latest in an estimated $2 […]

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio, D-Or., and Donald Payne, D-N.J., are urging the Federal Railroad Administration to finalize decades late final rule on fatigue risk management, citing the need to reduce railroad […]

Philadelphia, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Three men are dead, and others injured after being attacked by their co-workers in separate incidents during the end of March.    Last Wednesday, police in Philadelphia reported that a man stabbed […]

Richmond, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A transit company in Virginia has apologized for suspending a bus driver after he was attacked on the job, but they say they’re still denying his workers’ compensation claim.  Greater Richmond […]

Tacoma, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The latest in a string of violence toward legal pot shop employees has left one worker dead.  Officials say the nature of pot shops – as cash only businesses – are […]

Harlan County, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Rescue crews stopped looking for a miner thought to be trapped in a Kentucky coal mine last week when they found his body deep inside the mine.  James D. Brown, […]

Miami Beach, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Much like Alan Rickman’s Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, who called off Christmas, the Mayor of Miami is calling off Spring Break.  Citing injuries to police […]