Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

San Jose, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Customer attacks on workers continue as separate incidents were reported this past week.  In San Jose, a Safeway employee is dead after an altercation with a customer suspected of shoplifting.  […]

Danville, KY (WorkersCompensation.com) – When travelling is an implicit part of a worker’s job, the “coming and going rule” may not insulate the employer from claims over injuries that occur while on the road.  A […]

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Automation is all around, and anyone who has applied for a job lately has probably encountered multiple layers of artificial intelligence somewhere along the path from seeing a job posting to […]

St. Louis, MO (WorkersCompensation.com) – Over the past week, employees have taken aim at their co-workers and managers, sometimes to fatal results.    In St. Louis, Mo., a McDonald’s employee allegedly fatally shot a coworker on […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Recent studies have suggested that telehealth frequency may be directly related to a physician’s perception of its use. While some estimates show that telehealth visits accounted for as much 69 percent […]

Kannapolis, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employers can trigger liability by failing to engage in the interactive process to identify reasonable accommodations.  As one case illustrates, however, the conduct of the worker requesting the accommodations can impact […]

Cleveland, Ohio (WorkersCompensation.com) – With 58 dog attacks in 2021, Cleveland, Ohio ranks as the city that poses the most serious threat to postal employees and the public, according to the U.S. Postal Service.  As […]

Boston, MA (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employer may be able to defeat a failure to accommodate claim by highlighting the disconnect between an employee’s disability and the accommodations she sought.  That’s what occurred in Desai v. University […]