Texas Gov. Rick Perry vetoed 23 bills on June 17, including legislation that would have outlawed sending or reading text...
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Oklahoma’s unemployment rate declined in the month of May. The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission reported that unemployment in Oklahoma fell...
Illinois’ attorney general has praised parts of the recently approved workers’ compensation overhaul, but she says it would be a...
A St. Louis-based health care organization will no longer hire smokers to work at any of its seven area hospitals,...
Frank Fogle, a Barnesville, Ohio, (Belmont County) truck driver, has been sentenced for fraud after he concealed his employment in...
Recently passed Illinois House Bill 1698 provides that the governor will appoint all arbitrator positions for the Illinois Workers’ Compensation...
Bob Devereaux has joined the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission as Fraud Prevention and Efficiency Controller. He comes to the Commission...
Michigan-based workers’ compensation firm Accident Fund Holdings, Inc. has appointed Frank Freund as chief financial officer. Freund is replacing Ron...
A federal appeals court handed a major defeat to Wall Street banks in ruling that a financial news service did...
Blue collar workers hired through temporary staffing agencies often aren’t paid fairly and have difficulties filing workers’ compensation, according to...