Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) - The Central Intelligence Agency has started to compensation its current and former officers who sustained traumatic brain injuries from unexplained health incidents known as “Havana Syndrome.”    Officials told the New York […]

Grand Rapids, MN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Documenting coworkers’ complaints about an employee can sometimes help an employer rebuff an FMLA discrimination claim from a fired worker.  The fact that several paraprofessionals complained about a mental health practitioner […]

Richmond, VA (WorkersCompensation.com) – When an employee is receiving benefits for a workplace injury, some employers may want to verify that the employee is as injured as she reports.  Such was the case in Revels […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Value-based care payer agreements are contracts in which providers are paid based on health outcomes of their patients. Driven and determined by reporting and trending, in value-based arrangements providers and payers […]

Duette, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – OSHA has cited a farm labor contractor after the investigation into the death of a farmworker who died because of the heat.  According to OSHA, on April 5, 2022, a farm […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While COVID-19 may not be the urgent health crisis that it once was, several new reports are suggesting that the workplace could be impacted in multiple ways. Researchers are just now […]

Edgewood, MD (WorkersCompensaiton.com) – Police in Edgewood, Maryland, said a Papa John’s employee stabbed a customer in self-defense after the customer attacked him with a pizza paddle.    According to the Hartford County Sheriff’s Office, the […]

Portland, ME (WorkersCompensation.com) – When a worker’s job makes an existing injury worse, both medical records and the nature of the job help determine whether the injury is compensable.  A worker for a tree removal […]