by admin | Feb 19, 2015 | Workers' Comp News
Liberty Mutual has released its annual workplace safety index for 2014. The annual report ranks the top 10 causes of serious yet nonfatal workplace injuries based on information collected by Liberty Mutual – who is one of the largest workers comp insurance...
by admin | Feb 16, 2015 | Workers' Comp News
Terri Garcia of Kent, Ohio was caught on video working while collecting workers compensation benefits and was sentence in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas on January 27th. Garcia pleaded guilty to one count of workers compensation fraud which is a fifth-degree...
by admin | Feb 12, 2015 | Workers' Comp News
Ronnie Nabors is an iron worker in the state of Arkansas. Back on March 2, 2009 Nabors was walking to clock in for work when he slipped and fell on ice. He injured his lower back in the fall. The state Court of Appeals ruled that he was eligible for workers’...
by admin | Feb 11, 2015 | Workers' Comp News
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory gave his annual State of the State address this week. In it he outlined that nearly half of all workers’ compensation claims paid to state employees were the result of fraud or abuse. Now he is being criticized for his...
by admin | Feb 10, 2015 | Workers' Comp News
The California Supreme Court will hear the case next month of an injured worker who died as a result of an overdose of prescription medications. The death was ruled noncompensable under California’s workers ‘ compensation laws but they agreed last month...
