A couple of months back I had a nice phone with the business manager of a big union. They are an ethical union that maintains a list of lawyers to recommend to their members. I […]

Schenectady, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Sometimes it’s the timing of an employee’s termination that gets a company in trouble. A company that fired a senior counsel in its legal affairs department not long after he began […]

Administrator Troy Haley has appointed Shaterra Reed Marion as a judge on the Court of Workers’ Compensation Claims, the adjudicative function within the Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. She will be located in the Memphis office. […]

Bensalem, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – When an employer investigates an employee to uncover wrongdoing, it should be wary of investigatory missteps that tend to spawn costly retaliation lawsuits. A case involving a steel company in Pennsylvania […]

As David Stills wrote in a previous blog, workers compensation is comprised of multiple state systems across the U.S., each with their own unique set of rules and regulations that are in constant flux. The […]

Cincinnati, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – Creating clear written policies for employee attendance and work performance, and using acknowledgement forms, can go a long way toward protecting an employer from retaliation claims. Taking those steps helped a […]

How many times have you tripped or stumbled exiting or entering an elevator? Of those instances, how many times were you carrying something? Misleveled elevators are something that many of us have encountered, and it […]

Many in our industry are familiar with the case management role of nurses in the workers’ compensation arena, where they support injured and ill employees and oversee the treatment and recovery process. But, did you […]