Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Earlier this year, testimony presented to the House Committee on Ways and Means, showed that the number of healthcare provider bankruptcies increased 84 percent from 2021 to 2022. Although workforce shortages […]

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Arizona, when it appears that a workers' compensation claimant is a minor or incapacitated person, the commission may appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the best interests of the […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a workshop by Hanger Clinic on Upper Extremity Limb Loss. The workshop speakers discussed the advances in prosthetics that are helping people […]

Aspen, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) – It was bear versus security guard last week in Aspen – one of many incidents of animals attacking workers across the country in the past few months.   Officials in Aspen said […]

Charleston, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When an administrative decision goes up on appeal to a court, it may be the case that the court will want the lower bodies to show their work, in a manner […]

Frankfort, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Throughout the coal belt in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia, “there’s an unacceptably large number of younger miners who have end-stage black lung disease and the only choice is to get […]

Tamaqua, PA (WorkersCompensation.com)–In Pennsylvania, a worker who is not engaging in work activities but is on his employer’s premises and is required by the nature of his employment to be there may be entitled to […]

Lewiston, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) – Increasingly, as they deal with book bans and culture warriors and the homeless, librarians are becoming targets.   Last month, police in Oklahoma City, Okla., said they were investigating three violent outbursts […]