FDA Issues New Requirements For TIRF Opioids

• 01/04/21
• F.J. Thomas

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Food And Drug Administration (FDA) has announced new rules for a certain class of painkillers known as transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl, or TIRF. ...
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What Do You Think: Was Marine Tech Aquaculture Worker or Seaman?

• 01/04/21
• Frank Ferreri

Portland, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) – Does a job caring for fish that, from time to time, requires the use of boats make a worker a seaman? Possibly, and, as a Maine court recently detailed, it ...
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N.H. Top Court: Employers Wouldn't 'Significantly Consider' Laborer's Wrist Injury

• 12/30/20
• Frank Ferreri

Concord, NH (WorkersCompensation.com) – While a laborer for a lumber company had a wrist injury that made his job difficult, it didn’t mean he had an impairment that was a “hindrance or ...
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Employees Attacked Over Mask Requests

• 12/30/20
• Liz Carey

Houston, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – Police in Texas have arrested one man, and police in California are searching for two women in the latest attacks on employees over mask requests. In Houston, ...
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Audits Show Some COVID-19 Data May Be Incomplete

• 12/30/20
• F.J. Thomas

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – According to a recent analysis published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers concluded that the COVID-19 diagnoses reported in ...
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Spine Study Suggests OLIFF Surgery Effective For Spinal Stenosis

• 12/29/20
• F.J. Thomas

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Back injuries resulting in surgery are often complex and expensive, resulting in life-long complications and often requiring extensive additional surgeries. ...
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U.S. Dept. of Justice Files Lawsuit Against Walmart For Its Part In The Opioid Epidemic

• 12/29/20
• Liz Carey

Washington, D.C. (WorkersCompensation.com) – The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a nationwide lawsuit against Walmart Inc., for what it says is its part in the opioid epidemic. In an announcement ...
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Employer Survey Predicts Business Success for 2021

• 12/29/20
• Chriss Swaney

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Better times are just around the corner, a growing number of executives across the U.S. report. In a just- released 2021 National Business Trends Survey from the ...
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Yogurt Shop Employee Injured Fending Off Would-Be Robber

• 12/28/20
• Liz Carey

Zachary, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A young yogurt shop employee injured after thwarting a would-be robber may have exacted revenge on the perpetrator.   According to Zachary Police Chief ...
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