Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Mount Pleasant, Texas (WorkersCompensation.com) – OSHA has continued to cite Dollar Tree and Dollar General stores across the country for workplace violations over the past few weeks.  On February 27, federal inspectors cited a Dollar […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sets national and state industry standard for pricing for not only Medicare, but commercial and workers compensation as well. As a resource, CMS […]

Pittsburgh, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A history of earning low wages may be linked to a higher risk of death in middle age for American workers, according to a new study by Columbia University’s Mailman School […]

Minneapolis, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It was not that long ago when Minnesota incorporated “mental impairment” into the definition of “occupational disease” under the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act. Now, individuals with job-related PTSD may be able […]

Dover, DE (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When there's conflicting medical evidence about an injured worker, including that which comes from the worker himself, which side is a ruling authority supposed to come down on? As a Delaware […]

Augusta, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Statutes of limitations can prevent workers' compensation claims from going forward after a certain period of time, but sometimes, circumstances allow that period to be extended. As the recent Maine case Farrell […]

Louisville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Companies can overcome most retaliation claims if they can assert a genuine, lawful reason for terminating an employee and if they have documentation of that reason. In Devore v. UPS, No. […]

Change is coming. We find ourselves in the wake of great technological advances that we have worked very hard to develop and deploy. The onset of the Great Pandemic in 2020 drove our societal reliance […]