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Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While the numbers of remote workers have gradually dropped post pandemic, according to a Gallup poll last fall 45 percent of workers employed full time were still working remotely. Sixty-seven percent […]

Casa Grande, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) – Police are looking for and community members react to attacks on service workers in separate incidents across the country.   In Casa Grande, Ariz., police announced Monday they were looking for […]

Fort Wayne, IN (WorkersCompensation.com)–A mere diagnosis is not enough to establish a serious health condition for purposes of the FMLA.  That’s what an accounts receivable representative discovered in Connor v. Professional Medical Billing, No. 1:20-CV-183-HAB […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Researchers are just now starting to understand the full potential effects that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can have on the brain. One of the common complaints in addition to loss of smell […]

Colorado Springs, CO (WorkersCompensation.com) A woman and a man are dead at the hands of their co-workers in separate acts of violence this past week.   In Colorado Springs, police said they found the body of […]

Cedar Rapids, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) – When an injury occurs over time, at what point should a worker know that his injury could be compensable? That question was before the court in Havill v. Quaker Oats […]

Cleveland, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) –Whether a worker can collect benefits for having contracted COVID-19 typically depends on how a state defines occupational disease.  The issue of whether a furnace operator was entitled to benefits over his […]

Washington, D.C. (WorkersCompensation.com) – The American Hospital Association, and seven other national hospital organizations endorsed a bill introduced in early June to protect healthcare workers from violence.    The bill, the Safety From Violence for Healthcare […]