Chriss Swaney is a freelance reporter who has written for Antique Trader Magazine, Reuters, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, the Burlington Free Press, UPI, The Tribune-Review and the Daily Record.

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State Presumptive Laws Don't Go Far Enough, FF Advocates Say

• 05/06/19

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While states are increasingly considering and/or adopting legislation to provide workers’ compensation benefits to firefighters who develop cancer, ...
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Injured Workers Increasingly Being Treated As Consumers

• 04/26/19

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - A pervasive trend for stakeholders in the complex workers’ compensation arena is an evolving claims model viewing injured workers as consumers instead of ...
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Wyoming Employer Penalized By OSHA After Work-Related Accident Kills 2

• 04/24/19

Jacksonville, WY- (WorkersCompensation.com) - Wyoming’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has penalized the owner of a Jackson Hole developer for five violations that were deemed ...
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Employers Dump Email for Messaging Success

• 04/19/19

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - If employers have their way, the once ubiquitous use of email for business and consumer communication may be headed for the dustbin of digital history. For ...
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Employers Struggle With Leave of Absence Issues

• 04/17/19

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Balancing the various paid leave of absence laws can make for confusing scenarios at organizations seeking to accommodate their workers. There is, of course, ...
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Open Office Space Design Wave of the Future

• 04/03/19

Some workers may hate the growing trend for open office design, but it’s probably here to stay as more U.S. companies in 2019 have learned how to economically tweak around the edges with new furniture ...
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Nonparents Get Leaves To Handle Family Issues

• 03/26/19

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - For years, childless workers had to fight for any kind of family leave. But a changing, diverse workplace now creates the need for more family leave options for all ...
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Employers Are Stymied by Worker Overdoses

• 03/18/19

Sarasota, FL (WorkercCompensation.com) - For the first time in U.S. history, a person is more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a motor vehicle crash, according to National Safety ...
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How Safe Are Today’s New Commercial Aircraft?

• 03/14/19

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - For years, the FAA has essentially allowed airplane manufacturers to sign off on the safety of their own products, according to Jim Hall, former chairman of the ...
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