Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- This week is Nurses Week! I congratulate all the nurse case managers working in workers' compensation. As I have shared in the various articles I have written in Workercompenation.com, the nurse […]

Hickory, NC (WorkersCompensation.com). – Exclusivity clauses in workers’ compensation acts generally don’t apply when a worker assaults a coworker for purely personal reasons. The question whether the WCA was a surviving spouse’s sole option for […]

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Time is money, they say, and that's true when it comes to filing a court claim regarding a workers' compensation case. As a worker discovered in Caldwell v. Whirlpool Corp., 2023 […]

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A senior software engineer at the New York headquarters for Google apparently died by suicide last week, the second Google engineer to do so in recent months. Police said the […]

New Brunswick, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Workers' compensation cases often raises issues related to insurance coverage and insurance law. Such was the case in Aetna Casualty & Surety Company v. Para Manufacturing Company, 176 N.J. Super. […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to a recent Medscape report, more than 2 out of 5 physicians will be 65 within the next decade. Based on a survey from Elsevier Health, as many as 75 […]

Newark, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If you're in New Jersey and a dispute arises between an employer and employee over a workers' compensation claim, what happens? Here's a look at how the Garden State handles such […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to a federal press release in August of last year, the increase in telehealth use during the pandemic was clearly associated with reduced risk of opioid overdose. Researchers found that […]