Liz Carey has worked as a writer, reporter and editor for nearly 25 years. First, as an investigative reporter for Gannett and later as the Vice President of a local Chamber of Commerce, Carey has covered everything from local government to the statehouse to the aerospace industry. Her work as a reporter, as well as her work in the community, have led her to become an advocate for the working poor, as well as the small business owner.

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Portable Benefits For Gig Workers Bill Moves Forward In NJ

• 06/04/20

Trenton, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) – A bill that would require businesses to fund benefit accounts for independent contractors has moved out of committee and onto that state’s legislative ...
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Nurse Ordered To Pay Up On WC Scheme

• 06/04/20

New York, NY  (WorkersCompensation.com) – It’s no fun not to go to the YMCA either. An appeals court has found that a former nurse will have to pay back the federal government more than ...
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Reporters Injured While Covering Riots Across The Country

• 06/03/20

Minneapolis, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – As protesters and rioters took the streets of cities across the United States, Americans watched as journalists were being injured while doing their ...
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Labor Leaders Seek To Force Employers To Cover COVID-19 For Essential Workers

• 06/02/20

Boston, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Union leaders are asking Boston city council members insert presumption language into workers’ compensation laws assuming that frontline essential workers who ...
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WC Claims, And Denials, Rise As Businesses Reopen In CO

• 06/01/20

Denver, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) – As businesses open up after measures to flatten the COVID-19 curve shuttered them, more than 1,400 Colorado workers have filed workers’ compensation claims ...
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Settlement Signed By Husband Doesn't Apply To Widow, Court Finds

• 05/29/20

Annapolis, MD (WorkersCompensation.com) – A settlement agreement signed by a firefighter doesn’t prevent his widow from seeking death benefits, a Maryland Appeals Court has found. The court, in ...
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Frontline Workers Say They Must Prove They Got COVID-19 From Work, Push for Law Change

• 05/28/20

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – When NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo shut down all but essential businesses across the state to flatten the curve of infections from COVID-19, many essential workers ...
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More Than 500 Workers At NC Tyson Plant Test Positive For Coronavirus

• 05/22/20

Wilkesboro, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Five hundred and seventy workers at a Tyson chicken-processing plant in North Carolina have tested positive for the coronavirus, company officials said this ...
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Police: Man Shot Waffle House Cook Over Mask

• 05/22/20

Aurora, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) – Aurora police have arrested a man after he allegedly shot a Waffle House line cook who told him he wouldn’t be served without a mask. Aurora police have ...
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