Oregon Workers’ Comp Costs to Drop for 9th Year September 9, 2021 Oregon employers will pay on average less for workers’ compensation coverage in 2021, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business...
Beyond the Headlines: Workplace Violence and Workers Compensation Claims September 9, 2021 By Kathleen M. Bonczyk, M.B.A., Esq Whenever a legal dispute arises as to insurance coverage, the court will evaluate policy language to determine if a specific...
Meatpacker Fined $175K After Colorado Worker Loses Arm September 7, 2021 Meatpacking giant JBS USA has been issued five citations and fines totaling nearly $175,000 after a worker’s arm was amputated...
Fewer Virus Vaccinations Among Missouri Nursing Home Workers than Most States August 31, 2021 Officials face a tall order to get all Missouri nursing home workers vaccinated because fewer than half of them have...
Washington Man Who Faked Job Injury Pleads Guilty in Workers’ Comp Scam August 24, 2021 A Thurston County, Wash., man who reportedly tried to pass off a barroom brawl injury as a workplace accident has...
Biden Administration to Require Nursing Home Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccine August 19, 2021 By Eric Beech and Nancy Lapid President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his administration will require employees at nursing homes to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as...
Massachusetts Woman Arrested for Workers’ Compensation Benefits Fraud August 17, 2021 A Norwood, Massachusetts, woman was arrested in connection with fraudulently receiving federal workers’ compensation benefits and disability benefits from the...
OSHA Urges Employers to Require Vaccinated Workers to Wear Masks August 16, 2021 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. agency that regulates workplace safety issued guidance on Friday urging employers to require many fully vaccinated workers to...
Safeway Faces $339.3K in Fines After Amputations at Denver Plant August 16, 2021 Federal work safety officials imposed more than $339,000 in penalties against Safeway Inc. after a worker at a Denver milk...
Overheated, Underprotected: Climate Change Is Killing U.S. Farm Laborers August 13, 2021 By Elizabeth Elkin Florencio Gueta Vargas showed up for his usual shift at a hops farm in Toppenish, Washington, on Thursday, July 29....