SAIF in Oregon, which reported receiving 400-plus claims after January’s winter weather, said more Oregon workers were injured from slips, trips, and falls due to snow or ice than during any other storm since January 2017. SAIF, Oregon’s not-for-profit workers’ …
Canadian researchers are developing less expensive ways to embed glass fibers in a stretchy elastomer that could one day be used in slip-resistant winter footwear. Winter storms dumped records amounts of snow on the East Coast and other regions of …
A northern Illinois man has been sentenced to 6 months in jail for insurance fraud and forgery. Kane County prosecutors say 53-year-old Juventino Guzman of Elgin falsely claimed he’d slipped, fallen and was injured at three businesses in Elgin and …
NICB reviewed slip and fall claims referred between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011 and found an increase of of 12 percent in questionable claims referrals. In 2010, there were 1,944 referrals; in 2011, there were 2,168. The five …