Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Springfield, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Employers in Illinois may be responsible for paying workers’ compensation benefits for an employee with PTSD, but only under certain conditions. First, as with all injuries eligible for workers’ compensation benefits, […]

Boston, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- How to handle preexisting conditions has raised factual and legal questions in workers' compensation from pretty much the beginning. As one case, Green's Case, 165 N.E. 120 (Mass. 1929), which involved […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The recent death of two ramp workers being sucked into jet engines comes as no surprise to Ross Aimer, a former airport ramp worker and 747 pilot. “These deaths illustrate the […]

Baltimore, MD (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It's not often that workers' compensation and criminal law come up in the same case, but it's not unheard of, either. For example, in a recent case out of Maryland, Calloway […]

Harlem, NY (WorkersCompensaiton.com) – A 63-year-old grocery store worker was attacked and beaten to death outside of the Harlem store he worked at earlier this month, as attacks on workers across the country continue. Officials […]

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Beginning in 2001, the Arizona Legislature made it easier for firefighters (and fire investigators) seeking workers’ compensation to show that their job as a firefighter caused their cancer. Presumption of Occupational […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Racial inequities in healthcare, especially for serious illness, have been well documented. Often reasons such as mistrust, health literacy, and even spirituality and religion have been used to explain these differences.  […]

Houston, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – As outdoor workers across the South struggle under a massive and long-lasting heat dome, some postal employees and delivery workers are threatening to strike over working conditions. In Texas, Gov. Gregg […]