Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

What Do You Think? Employees who are fired because they are taking workers’ compensation leave can sue their employers for retaliation. As one case shows, an employer’s comments prior to the termination, when combined with […]

Glossary Check Depending on the circumstances, a make-or-break component in a workers' compensation claim can be whether the injured person in question was an "employee" under the state's workers' compensation law. As Simply Research subscribers […]

Compliance Corner As Simply Research subscribers know, in Georgia, workers’ compensation does not provide benefits for an injury or accident resulting from an employee’s willful misconduct (i.e. fighting, horseplay, willful act of third party for […]

Glossary Check Is it possible to "fix" an injured worker? According to workers' compensation law in the State of Washington -- as Simply Research subscribers know -- in a manner of speaking, yes. Here's how […]

Case File A worker had a preexisting knee problem that was asymptomatic, but the pain he experienced after a workplace injury meant that he had a viable workers' compensation claim for treatment. Simply Research subscribers […]

Labor Landscape American workers are less merry this holiday season as a new survey finds them anxious about job insecurity in the wake of a sluggish economy and a stark reality that  job security may […]

Safety at Work New York City, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – The union representing firefighters in New York City is demanding answers after officials discovered 68 boxes of documents on the hazards posed by toxins in 9/11 […]

Compliance Corner If you're a self-insured employer in Oregon looking to stay on the right side of the law, you need to know what the state's reporting requirements are. That info is available to Simply […]