Fredericksburg, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Virginia law covers two scenarios in which attorney's fees are accounted for in a workers' compensation case: 1) where the parties agree to a fee; and 2) where they don't. The […]

Leacock Township, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Several employees were killed in on-the-job accidents last week including one who was killed when the inn she was working in exploded. John E. Smucker, II, owner of the Bird-in-Hand […]

Richmond, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When most of the population uses "ground rules," they're probably referring to a game, competition, or terms of engagement in some way. However, when the workers' compensation community in Virginia uses […]

Chesapeake, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – More than a year after a mass shooting killed six Walmart employee and several others injured, several pending lawsuits could test the limits of Virginia’s workers’ compensation laws.   On Nov. 20, […]

Richmond, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Virginia has a form to use when there is a supplemental agreement to pay varying wage benefits. The form must be completed whenever a claim has been accepted as compensable and […]

Frankfort, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Throughout the coal belt in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia, “there’s an unacceptably large number of younger miners who have end-stage black lung disease and the only choice is to get […]

South Boston, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – In order to be compensable in Virginia, an “injury by accident” must arise from a discrete event at work. But what happens when an employee claims there was a discrete […]

Richmond, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- If you visited our sister site, Simply Research, recently, you might have come across updates Virginia recently made to its Petition for Medical Treatment. Here are the instructions the Old Dominion […]