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Follansbee, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) – When an employee dies at work with no witnesses, it can become challenging to determine whether his death was work-related. But as one case shows, sometimes the outcome is dictated by […]

Part Four of Seven Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In the often complex and sensitive realm of workers' compensation, the tone and approach of claims adjusters can make or break the experience for the injured worker. […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- At a worker's compensation conference last week, the speaker talked about who case managers are loyal to or who is the client. People called out different people: the adjustor, the employer, […]

Columbia, SC (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When are payments from South Carolina's State Accident Fund authorized? The following chart spells it out. Topics Expenditure Rules General payments State Accident Fund expenditures are authorized for the payment of […]

Part Three of Seven Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In the complex, often emotionally fraught world of workers' compensation, the difference between a smoothly resolved claim and a drawn-out, contentious process can boil down to two […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Experts have been sounding the alarm on healthcare, between provider shortages, increasing costs, and layoffs. While practices have been working to come back from the financial pressures and lost revenue during […]

Howell Township, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com)–What if an employee is working and suddenly goes unconscious? Can he establish a viable workers’ compensation claim for an injury that he believes occurred when he was insensible? That was the […]

On September 28, 2023, the Supreme Court of Kentucky, in Tennco Energy, Inc. v. Lane, addressed when a workers compensation (WC) claimant should notify the employer of an impending coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP) claim, where the […]