Illinois’ attorney general has praised parts of the recently approved workers’ compensation overhaul, but she says it would be a...
Yearly Archives: 2011
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...
A Maine jury has awarded $6.7 million to a woman whose husband died at Eastern Maine Medical Center following an...

The Supreme Court rejected a mammoth class-action lawsuit charging sex discrimination at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Monday in a ruling...