New York City Transit Halts Service Alerts on Twitter After Suspension May 2, 2023 By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Shortly after midnight last Thursday, several New York City subway trains slowed to a crawl as emergency crews tended to...
Court Upholds Denial of Widow’s COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Death Claim May 2, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The widow of a man who died from COVID-19 has been denied workers’ compensation benefits because she failed to prove...
Virginia Workers’ Compensation Review Panel Clarifies COVID-19 Presumption May 2, 2023 Virginia’s statutory presumption that a COVID-19 disability of a first responder is work-related, which went into effect July 1, 2020,...
Virginia Beach Tornado Causes $15M in Residential Damage; No Reports of Injuries May 1, 2023 The Virginia Beach community in southeastern Virginia was hit by a tornado on Sunday, April 30, just minutes before 6:00...
OSHA Says Amazon Failed to Provide Injured Workers With Adequate Medical Care May 1, 2023 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports it has found that giant online retailer Amazon failed to provide adequate...
Maine Presses Railroad to Fix Roads, Culverts After Derailment May 1, 2023 Maine environmental regulators have asked a railroad cleaning up a freight train derailment site to repair forest management roads and...
Court Reinstates Criminal Charges Against Veterans’ Home Officials Over COVID Policies May 1, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge Thursday and reinstated criminal neglect charges against two top former officials at...
After Parking Garage Deadly Collapse, New York City Partly Shutters Four Others May 1, 2023 By Bobby Caina Calvan After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of...
Massachusetts Hospital Lacked Workplace Violence Protections, OSHA Judge Finds April 28, 2023 A federal administrative law judge has determined that the manager of Fuller Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts exposed employees to workplace...
New York’s Yellow Cab Drivers Can’t Sue City Over Uber, Lyft Impact on License Values April 28, 2023 New York’s top state court on Thursday threw out claims by yellow cab operators that New York City diminished the...