Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

As many as 50 gig workers have lost their lives while working, but the businesses they work for do little more than pass on condolences in the press, a new report shows.   And that number […]

Dallas, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – When President George W. Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act into law and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations for it a few years later, the definition of disability expanded […]

Baton Rouge, LA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A workplace injury that occurs due to intoxication can make a claim for benefits go up in smoke. For example, in Griffith v. CMR Construction & Maintenance Resources, No. 54,443-WCA […]

Red Bay, AL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Officials in rural Red Bay, Ala., say a state employee investigating a dog attack has died after being attacked by a pack of dogs.    According to a Facebook post from […]

High Point, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – A woman stabbed a fast food worker over a sandwich order this  past week, in a continuing assault on workers across the country.    Police in High Point, N.C., said Demetris […]

Charlotte, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) –  Losing weight is sometimes required before someone can undergo surgery, but does that mean it’s compensable if the necessary surgery is work-related? That’s the question a North Carolina court recently faced […]

Tallmadge, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – Changing the way a job is done is often the key to successfully providing an employee with a disability with a reasonable accommodation. However, as the court in Woodling v. GeoBUILD […]

Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) – FBI agents arrested a man who said his homophobia may have caused him to assault an American Airlines flight attendant.    According to a criminal complaint filed April 22, a passenger in first […]