Kansas Governor Signs Law to Increase Benefits to Injured Workers April 15, 2024 By John Hanna TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will increase what have been among the lowest benefits in the U.S. for workers who...
Court Rules in Favor of Massachusetts Insurers Insolvency Fund in Workers’ Comp Suit November 4, 2016 By Elizabeth Blosfield The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Boston, Mass., has ruled that the Massachusetts Insurers Insolvency Fund is authorized to...
DataPath Launches System to Monitor Workers’ Comp Medicare Settlement Funds July 5, 2016 DataPath, a payment processor and provider, has launched RelianceCard, a card-based payment option for workers’ compensation Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) arrangements....
ProPublica, NPR: Inside Corporate America’s Campaign to Ditch Workers’ Comp October 14, 2015 By Michael Grabell, ProPublica and Howard Berkes, NPR This article was published by ProPublica and NPR and is reprinted with permission. Standing before a giant map in his...
Oregon Workplace Deaths Down in Second Quarter of 2015, Report Shows July 29, 2015 By Don Jergler Workplace deaths in Oregon for the second quarter of 2015 were down markedly from the previous quarter, possibly resuming a...
Effort to Expand Police Mental Health Coverage Progresses in Connecticut May 26, 2015 By Susan Haigh A long-running effort in Connecticut to extend workers’ compensation benefits to police officers who receive mental health injuries on the...
N.H. Court: Worker Who Fell Asleep While Driving Due Benefits for Crash Injuries March 27, 2015 By Young Ha The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled last week that a worker who fell asleep while driving a company truck and...
Workers’ Comp Upheld for Maine Man Who Died on Treadmill January 26, 2015 Maine’s highest court on Jan. 22 upheld workers’ compensation benefits for the widow of a Salvation Army portfolio manager who...
Employee Wins Comp Benefits in N.Y. After Run-In With Co-Worker’s Husband July 18, 2014 By Young Ha A former manager at a New York supermarket is due workers’ compensation benefits for his preexisting post-traumatic stress disorder condition,...
Maine Man Found Guilty of Workers’ Comp Fraud April 21, 2014 An Aroostook County jury in Maine has convicted a northern Maine man of theft of more than $10,000 in workers’...