by Kelia Scott | Sep 7, 2018 | Workers' Comp News
Michigan’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration (MIOSHA) announced that employers with up to 250 employees can apply for a grant to be used in improving the safety and health of their workplace. The MIOSHA Workplace Improvement to Safety and Health (MIWISH)...
by Kelia Scott | Sep 5, 2018 | Workers' Comp News
Pinnacol Assurance released data from five years’ worth of Colorado claims that shows which injuries are most likely to occur across four industries, who is most likely to get injured at work, and when those injuries are more likely to occur. Analysts looked at injury...
by Kelia Scott | Sep 4, 2018 | Workers' Comp News
The Kentucky Court of Appeals decided that the Workers’ Compensation Board made an error when they decided to overturn a decision which excluded the impairment caused by a worker’s previous neck injury when calculating his impairment rating from a later accident....
by Kelia Scott | Sep 4, 2018 | Workers' Comp News
The latest issue of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics’ publication “The Economics Daily” examined different kinds of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. The data shows that work-related musculoskeletal disorders that require days away from work often...
by Kelia Scott | Aug 30, 2018 | Workers' Comp News
The California Department of Industrial Relations’ Labor Enforcement Task Force (LETF) announced that during the Fiscal Year 2017-2018 93% of businesses inspected were out of compliance with labor laws. Also, this year the LETF assessed over $10 million in initial...