Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Automation is all around, and anyone who has applied for a job lately has probably encountered multiple layers of artificial intelligence somewhere along the path from seeing a job posting to […]

St. Louis, MO (WorkersCompensation.com) – Over the past week, employees have taken aim at their co-workers and managers, sometimes to fatal results.    In St. Louis, Mo., a McDonald’s employee allegedly fatally shot a coworker on […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Recent studies have suggested that telehealth frequency may be directly related to a physician’s perception of its use. While some estimates show that telehealth visits accounted for as much 69 percent […]

Kannapolis, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employers can trigger liability by failing to engage in the interactive process to identify reasonable accommodations.  As one case illustrates, however, the conduct of the worker requesting the accommodations can impact […]

Cleveland, Ohio (WorkersCompensation.com) – With 58 dog attacks in 2021, Cleveland, Ohio ranks as the city that poses the most serious threat to postal employees and the public, according to the U.S. Postal Service.  As […]

Boston, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employer may be able to defeat a failure to accommodate claim by highlighting the disconnect between an employee’s disability and the accommodations she sought.  That’s what occurred in Desai v. University […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While most folks believe telehealth is a new idea, the concept was actually first mentioned in 1879 in a Lancet article as a way to reduce unnecessary office visits. In the […]

In early June, the Workers’ Compensation Institute welcomed Andrew Sabolic as its news executive director. Sabolic, who had served as Assistant Director of the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation at the Florida Department of Financial […]