U.S. Workers Exposed to Extreme Heat Have No Consistent Protection August 29, 2023 By GABE STERN, Associated Press/Report for America Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico...
Workplace Shootings Not Always Compensable, Florida Appeals Court Says August 18, 2023 By William Rabb Workplace shootings, more common than ever now, may happen in the course and scope of employment. But do they have...
Testimony Starts in Trial of 2 White Mississippi Men in Shooting at Black FedEx Driver August 17, 2023 By Emily Wagster Pettus BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Witnesses began testifying Wednesday in the trial of two white men in Mississippi who are accused...
Work Comp Defense Attorneys Worry Ga. Courts Becoming Too Worker Friendly August 14, 2023 By William Rabb After three major Georgia appeals court decisions have gone against employers in the last five years, some insurance defense attorneys...
Attacks Show Why Health Care is One of the Nation’s Most Violent Fields August 8, 2023 By Rebecca Boone Word spread through an Oregon hospital last month that a visitor was causing trouble in the maternity ward, and nurses...
Appellate Court Rejects ‘Fishing Expedition’ Discovery Request to Home Depot August 7, 2023 By Jim Sams A Texas appellate court threw out a trial court order that approved a plaintiff’s overly broad discovery request in an...
WCRI: Inflation Not a Big Deal for Workers’ Comp, Yet August 4, 2023 By Jim Sams While fast-rising prices in the past year drove up claim costs for auto and property insurers, inflation has been a...
After Decades of Delays, Broken Promises, Coal Miners Hail Rule to Slow Rise of Black Lung July 25, 2023 By Leah Willingham and Matthew Daly CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, the nation`s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine...
A.M. Best: Workers’ Comp Outpacing Rest of Property/Casualty Commercial Sector July 19, 2023 Workers’ compensation insurers’ underwriting results continued to outpace the rest of the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) commercial sector in 2022, as...
Workers’ Compensation Undercuts Employer Liability Exclusion, U.S. Appeals Court Rules July 11, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson Since workers’ compensation shields an employer from liability, an insurer may not be able to rely on an employer liability...