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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 […]

Boston, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Airline officials said a passenger has been arrested after he attempted to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken spoon.   According to Boston Police, a passenger on a […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to some statistics, low back pain is the top musculoskeletal condition to cause disability across the globe. Acute back pain is when patients have symptoms from 2 to 12 weeks. […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A California spine surgeon has just been convicted of federal charges stemming from one of the largest fraud cases in California history involving the owner of the decommissioned Pacific Hospital and […]

Providence, RI (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Under Rhode Island workers' compensation law, an employer must provide any reasonable medical, surgical, dental, optical, or other attendance or treatment, nurse and hospital service, medicines, crutches, and apparatus for the […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – You may want to pay closer attention to the physicians you interact with, according to the results of a Medscape survey released June 28th through October 3rd of last year. Medscape […]