Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released their findings of Fee-for-Service claims audits conducted this year.  Last year, CMS estimated that the rate of improper payments […]

Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Mental health services have taken on increased importance in the past few years and have begun receiving long-overdue recognition as part of an overall health and wellness commitment to workers. The […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Commercial fishing has long been known as one of the world’s most dangerous professions, but a new study by the FISH Foundation and commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trusts, suggests that […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Case managers are problem solvers. When they see a problem, they brainstorm with the team to think of ways to address the challenges they are seeing and develop a plan to […]

Holyoke, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Health Department officials in Massachusetts are pushing for extra safety steps after a cannabis worker died from an asthma attack.   According to OSHA, a worker for Trulieve Cannabis Corp. was packaging […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – COVID-19 has certainly been persistent in leaving its mark on the world. Some studies have suggested that when it comes to Long COVID, the numbers have been grossly underestimated. Three years […]

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If you wanted to get down to basics, you might want to start with what's covered. In case you want to know the basics are for coverage in the District of […]

Wheeling, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To determine whether a worker who is injured while engaged in an activity that is neither distinctly personal nor distinctly employment-related in character, many courts apply the “increased-risk” test. The West […]