by Kelia Scott | Oct 22, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
This week four large drug companies reached a last-minute settlement with two counties in Ohio for their role in the opioid epidemic. This avoids what would have been the first federal trial over the issue, which many regarded as a test trial that could have shaped...
by Kelia Scott | Sep 24, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
A flight attendant injured her shoulder while undergoing physical therapy for a work-related wrist injury, and an appeals court in New Jersey ruled that her treatment did not cause her second injury. Priscilla Robinson worked for United Airlines and suffered a...
by Kelia Scott | Sep 23, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
A roofing contractor in Akron, OH was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter. One of his employees had fallen to his death from a three-story roof where he was working without fall protection in November of 2017. The...
by Kelia Scott | Sep 19, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
A judge in the Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed a decision from the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission that an employer must pay an injured workers’ wife for the nursing services she provided to her husband after his injury. Ronald Reynolds worked for Wilcox...
by Kelia Scott | Sep 18, 2019 | Workers' Comp News
Workers’ compensation rates in Rhode Island have increased significantly in the past several years and state leaders are beginning to take steps to improve workplace safety and improve the efficiency of the system. The state’s Department of Behavioral Healthcare,...
