Court Finds PTSD, 'Hearing Loss' Insufficient for ADA Coverage, Reasonable Accommodations

• 05/11/22
• Frank Ferreri

Dallas, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – When President George W. Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act into law and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations for it a few years ...
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Worker's Marijuana Use Before Injury Supplies Employer with Intoxication Presumption

• 05/10/22
• Frank Ferreri

Baton Rouge, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A workplace injury that occurs due to intoxication can make a claim for benefits go up in smoke. For example, in Griffith v. CMR Construction & ...
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Alabama Public Health Inspector Killed by 'Dangerous Dogs' while Investigating Dog Attack

• 05/10/22
• Liz Carey

Red Bay, AL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Officials in rural Red Bay, Ala., say a state employee investigating a dog attack has died after being attacked by a pack of ...
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Attacks on Workers Continue

• 05/09/22
• Liz Carey

High Point, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – A woman stabbed a fast food worker over a sandwich order this  past week, in a continuing assault on workers across the ...
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What Do You Think: Was Preschool Owner's Bariatric Surgery Compensable?

• 05/09/22
• Frank Ferreri

Charlotte, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) –  Losing weight is sometimes required before someone can undergo surgery, but does that mean it’s compensable if the necessary surgery is ...
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Supervisory Role Doesn't Constitute Reasonable Accommodation for Laborer

• 05/06/22
• Frank Ferreri

Tallmadge, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – Changing the way a job is done is often the key to successfully providing an employee with a disability with a reasonable accommodation. However, as the ...
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Flight Attendant Assaulted by Passenger as American Airlines Requests Two Drink Max

• 05/05/22
• Liz Carey

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) – FBI agents arrested a man who said his homophobia may have caused him to assault an American Airlines flight attendant.    According to a ...
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Charges Filed in Opioid Cases Involving 5.1 Million Pills, $7 Million in Reimbursement

• 05/05/22
• FJ Thomas

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Appalachian region has always been fraught with woe and despair. Some studies have supported that reputation, showing a higher rate of mental illness ...
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MTA, NY Police Meet over Increase in Attacks on Workers, Passengers

• 05/04/22
• Liz Carey

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – So far this year, at least 45 Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) workers and New York Police Department (NYPD) officials have been assaulted in New York ...
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