by admin | May 14, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
As is federal law when an employee is injured in the scope of their work and can no longer perform that job that employee is entitled to workers compensation benefits in the form of wage loss benefits. Wage loss is calculated by comparing what the average weekly rate...
by admin | May 8, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
In a continued effort to crack down on pill mills and excessive prescription drug abuse the Florida Attorney General – Pam Bondi has found a way to keep the state database up and running even after state legislators decided against continuing to fund it. The...
by admin | May 7, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
Chip Kyle Bolton, 33 of Arizona formerly of Salinas was sentenced by a judge to the maximum penalty of eight years and eight months for workers comp fraud. This ruling comes on the heels of an appeal from April of 2014 where a jury convicted Bolton on seven counts of...
by admin | May 2, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
A Washington state trooper who was being trained on tasers was injured and will now be allowed to bring his case to trial according to a state appeals court ruling. According to the article Trooper Michael Michelbrink Jr. was participating in a state mandatory taser...
by admin | Apr 28, 2014 | Workers' Comp News
OSHA regulators are now looking to take steps to regulate public safety. As they are looking into public safety the first area they want to target is firefighting. In doing so they want to look at the way fire departments are aggressive and attack fires from the...
