New York City Issues 1,500 Stop Work Orders After Worker Fatalities

• 09/17/21
• Liz Carey

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – New York City’s crack-down on safety this year has resulted in nearly 1,500 stop work orders and thousands of violations at construction sites across the ...
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Report Shows Slight Decrease in Healthcare Data Breaches

• 09/16/21
• FJ Thomas

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – In 2020, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received a total of 791,790 complaints of internet crime totaling $4.1 billion in losses, and ...
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COVID Fatalities Lead Job-Related Death Numbers

• 09/16/21
• Liz Carey

Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – COVID-19 ranks among the highest causes of work-related injuries and deaths in three states, new data shows.  In California, the California ...
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IME Pros Change Approaches to Address Pandemic's Challenges

• 09/16/21
• Nancy Grover

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Telemedicine has come into its own for the workers’ compensation system during the pandemic, including for independent medical examiners. And it can be a ...
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Pain Management Expert Points to VR as 'Game Changer'

• 09/15/21
• Nancy Grover

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Virtual reality is not just for gaming. It’s increasingly being used to help people manage their pain, both acute and chronic. For the workers’ ...
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Worker's Parking Lot Fall Merits Compensation in Spite of Employer's Warning

• 09/15/21
• Frank Ferreri

Neptune, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Although an employer told employees not to park in a particular part of its parking lot, that did not stop one employee from doing so and, in the process, ...
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New York Attorneys and Physicians Indicted on $31 Million Trip-and-fall Fraud Scheme

• 09/14/21
• FJ Thomas

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – In 2019, 27 percent of the 888,220 nonfatal work injuries resulting in loss work days were attributed to slip, trip, and fall injuries, with most of those ...
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Vaccine-related Pregnancy Discrimination Claims Fall Short on Comparator Evidence

• 09/14/21
• Frank Ferreri

Mineola, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Anyone perusing the web or scrolling through social media will see that pushback against vaccinations is nothing new, and during the flu season of 2017, a ...
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Employer Community Grapples with Biden's Vaccine Mandates

• 09/14/21
• Nancy Grover

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – “You may see the greatest religious shift in history,” said Albert B. Randall, Jr. Esq., president of Franklin & Prokopik. “It would not ...
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