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Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The 61st Annual Iowa Workers' Compensation Symposium held its highly anticipated Agency Update session on June 22, 2023. Iowa Workers' Compensation Commissioner Joseph S. Cortese II provided attendees an engaging […]

San Antonio, Texas (WorkersCompensation.com) – For the second time this year, an airline worker has died in a plane’s engine, officials said Friday, with the most recent incident coming as the result of a suicide. […]

Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Last week, industry experts from around the nation gathered at the Downtown Des Moines Marriott for the 61st Annual Iowa Workers' Compensation Symposium. Organized by the Iowa Workers' Compensation Advisory […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Encouraging employees to nap on their lunch break may help preserve their brain health, according to the results of a new study published earlier this month in Sleep Health.  Eighty percent […]

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Even before the pandemic, telehealth was catching on as an economical and effective way to provide treatment to injured workers, and it continues to become an entrenched part of the "new […]

Austin, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – As Texas enters its third week of record-breaking heat, Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a law that would roll back local rules protecting workers from heat illness.   The legislation introduced earlier […]

Mental Injury Claims, Jurisdictional Issues, and Disputes Involving the Second Injury Fund and Indemnity Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The 61st Annual Iowa Workers' Compensation Symposium continued its enlightening sessions, focusing on the agency case […]

Benwood, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) – When there’s reason to suspect a worker’s injury report is more akin to a work of fiction, it helps to have witnesses’ statements that were created on the day of or […]