One Worker Missing After Explosion at Massachusetts Chemical Plant May 4, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson One worker is missing and the building is severely damaged after an early morning explosion at a pharmaceutical chemical plant...
California Family Members Arraigned in $2.1M Insurance Fraud Schemes May 4, 2023 Four Merced, California, family members were arraigned this week for multiple counts of insurance fraud after a California Department of...
Manhattan DA Brings Charges in Alleged Affordable Housing Construction Fraud May 3, 2023 Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced indictments charging eight individuals and six companies with fraud and corruption within...
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,...
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...
Virginia School: Workers’ Comp Bars $40M Suit by Teacher Shot by 6-Year Old April 27, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The Newport News public school board says the $40 million lawsuit filed against it by the teacher who was shot...
New York Woman Pleads Guilty to $27K in False Claims for Aquatic Treatments April 25, 2023 Eunice Ting, of Watervliet, New York, pled guilty last Thursday to making a false statement to obtain benefits from the...
Connecticut High Court Affirms Ruling Denying State Troopers’ PTSD Claims April 25, 2023 By Jim Sams Two state troopers who were struck by a car on an interstate exit ramp cannot collect damages for post traumatic...
Workers’ Comp Takes Bite Out of Employee Right to Sue Third Party: Pennsylvania High Court April 20, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson A Pennsylvania employer cannot be sued for blocking an employee from suing the third party responsible for her workplace injury,...
Manhattan Parking Garage Collapse Kills 1, Injures 5 April 20, 2023 By Ted Shaffrey, Bobby Caina Calvan and Jennifer Peltz A parking garage collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan’s Financial District, killing one worker, injuring five and crushing cars as concrete...