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Restaurant Employee Attacked by Upset Customers
Restaurant Employee Attacked by Upset Customers

Safety at Work Memphis, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Police in Memphis are looking for two women they say assaulted a restaurant employee. According to the Memphis Police Department, officers responded to an assault call at the […]
Roofer’s Fall without Harness doesn’t Trigger Idaho’s ‘Unprovoked Physical Aggression’ Rule
Roofer’s Fall without Harness doesn’t Trigger Idaho’s ‘Unprovoked Physical Aggression’ Rule

Case File When a roofer fell off a roof without fall protection of any kind, how much did the builder know about it? Not much, and that made all the difference in the case. Simply […]
Mexican Sailing Ship Rams Brooklyn Bridge, Killing 2, Injures More than a Dozen
Mexican Sailing Ship Rams Brooklyn Bridge, Killing 2, Injures More than a Dozen

Safety at Work Brooklyn, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Mexican Navy ship, called the Cuauhtemoc, rammed into the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday night, killing two crew members and leaving others dangling high above the deck waiting for […]
Can 75-Year-Old Meatpacker get Total Disability Reclassification?
Can 75-Year-Old Meatpacker get Total Disability Reclassification?

What Do You Think? In New York, an employee receiving permanent partial disability benefits may seek reclassification so that she can continue receiving benefits based on permanent total disability. When determining whether or how to […]
Did Amazon Worker’s Tavern Side Hustle Reduce his Entitlement to Benefits?
Did Amazon Worker’s Tavern Side Hustle Reduce his Entitlement to Benefits?

What Do You Think? Whether an injured worker is entitled to total disability benefits or partial disability benefits can hinge on whether he continues working at a second job. That’s one reason it may be […]
Did THC in Blood Send House Framer’s Injury Claim up in Smoke?
Did THC in Blood Send House Framer’s Injury Claim up in Smoke?

What Do You Think? The use of an illegal drug can easily put an end to a worker’s compensation claim if there is evidence that the drug played a role in the injury. In Mississippi, […]
What’s Going on with Pain? NCCI’s Sinclair Looks at the Post-Opioid Landscape
What’s Going on with Pain? NCCI’s Sinclair Looks at the Post-Opioid Landscape

Orlando, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- By now, it's well-known that a major contributing factor to the opioid crisis has been pain management practices, but as the past 10 to 15 years have seen a decline in […]
Teachers Face Attacks on Job, Union Officials Say
Teachers Face Attacks on Job, Union Officials Say

Safety at Work Newburgh, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Officials at the Newburgh Free Academy said a teacher was assaulted by a student in their classroom recently. The Newburgh Enlarged City School District said the teacher required […]

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