Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Last year, 30 percent of hospitals were expected to report financial losses, with a total loss of $54 billion. To add insult to injury, a new report from Kaufman Hall shows […]

As many as 50 gig workers have lost their lives while working, but the businesses they work for do little more than pass on condolences in the press, a new report shows.   And that number […]

Dallas, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – When President George W. Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act into law and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations for it a few years later, the definition of disability expanded […]

Baton Rouge, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A workplace injury that occurs due to intoxication can make a claim for benefits go up in smoke. For example, in Griffith v. CMR Construction & Maintenance Resources, No. 54,443-WCA […]

Red Bay, AL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Officials in rural Red Bay, Ala., say a state employee investigating a dog attack has died after being attacked by a pack of dogs.    According to a Facebook post from […]

High Point, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – A woman stabbed a fast food worker over a sandwich order this  past week, in a continuing assault on workers across the country.    Police in High Point, N.C., said Demetris […]

Charlotte, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) –  Losing weight is sometimes required before someone can undergo surgery, but does that mean it’s compensable if the necessary surgery is work-related? That’s the question a North Carolina court recently faced […]

Tallmadge, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – Changing the way a job is done is often the key to successfully providing an employee with a disability with a reasonable accommodation. However, as the court in Woodling v. GeoBUILD […]