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Denver, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Filing a first report of injury is an important step employers and their insurers must ensure happens when a worker gets hurt on the job. Colorado, like other states, details requirements […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Case Managers are liaisons between the injured worker, the health care team, and the employer. WorkersCompensation.com caught up with Jen Henry, DPT, MPH, Clinical Consultant at Bardavon Health Innovations to address […]

This site has had a great many posts regarding the rate of overdose death in America. That interest is spurred, in part, from the allegations that many illicit drug users may get their introduction to […]

Mapleton, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) - An Illinois foundry is facing a six-figure penalty after federal investigators found an employee died immediately after he fell into a vat of molten iron.  According to a press release from […]

Minneapolis, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Headlines from around the country over the past few years have suggested that marijuana is legal in its recreational or medicinal forms. And while that might be practically true in terms […]

Brunswick, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) - The brother of a tree trimming company's supervisor was found guilty earlier this month for conspiring to kill a co-worker who exposed a multi-million labor scheme.  According to the U.S. District […]

Bluefield, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) – In West Virginia, employers are generally immune from suit for injury or death of their employees if they are subscribers to workers’ compensation. As illustrated by Goodman v. Auton, No. 21-0578 […]

Baton Rouge, LA (WorkersCompensation.com)–Sometimes, a worker’s delay in reporting an injury can cast doubt on whether the injury is truly work-related—particularly, when the primary evidence is the worker’s testimony. But can the circumstances of an […]