Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

San Jose, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Bus drivers in San Jose are asking for more protections as assaults from spitting to physical attacks are on the increase.    The drivers join the growing number of transit organizations […]

Rapid City, SD (WorkersCompensation.com) – The issue of whether a doctor is part of a plan can determine whether workers’ compensation coverage will pay for treatment. In Dittman v. Rapid City School District, Nos. 29548, […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – While insurances companies have not been offering increases to providers at negotiation time and are moving more towards case-focused arrangements, providers have been left with the task of cutting costs. In […]

Oxford, IN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Simply having a genuine basis for terminating an employee, and consistently articulating it, is often the key to a company successfully defending itself against an FMLA retaliation claim.  In Shrock v. […]

Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – After close to two and a half years of dealing with the coronavirus, workplaces around the country are shifting back to the “old normal” of in-person work, meetings, and gatherings. And […]

Atlanta, GA (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employer seeking to establish a breakdown in the interactive process better be ready to establish that it was responsive to the worker’s accommodation request.  As the 11th U.S. Circuit Court […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Studies have shown that the patient-physician relationship is a direct factor in outcomes. Additionally, some studies suggest that the patient-physician relationship element is more evident in 6 months after rehabilitation, as […]

Grenada, MS (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employee’s statements to his own doctor can sometimes reveal whether his workers’ compensation claim is genuine, or just an effort to avoid a job he doesn’t like.  The latter might […]