Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Grand Rapids, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Documenting coworkers’ complaints about an employee can sometimes help an employer rebuff an FMLA discrimination claim from a fired worker.  The fact that several paraprofessionals complained about a mental health practitioner […]

Richmond, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – When an employee is receiving benefits for a workplace injury, some employers may want to verify that the employee is as injured as she reports.  Such was the case in Revels […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Value-based care payer agreements are contracts in which providers are paid based on health outcomes of their patients. Driven and determined by reporting and trending, in value-based arrangements providers and payers […]

Duette, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – OSHA has cited a farm labor contractor after the investigation into the death of a farmworker who died because of the heat.  According to OSHA, on April 5, 2022, a farm […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While COVID-19 may not be the urgent health crisis that it once was, several new reports are suggesting that the workplace could be impacted in multiple ways. Researchers are just now […]

Edgewood, MD (WorkersCompensaiton.com) – Police in Edgewood, Maryland, said a Papa John’s employee stabbed a customer in self-defense after the customer attacked him with a pizza paddle.    According to the Hartford County Sheriff’s Office, the […]

Portland, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) – When a worker’s job makes an existing injury worse, both medical records and the nature of the job help determine whether the injury is compensable.  A worker for a tree removal […]

Logan, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – Whether an injury in a company parking lot is compensable is a tricky question that may hinge on a variety of factors, including what the worker was doing when the injury […]