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Skippack Township, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Officials said five people were injured Thursday morning during a training exercise at a Montgomery County prison. Officials said the accident occurred shortly before 10 a.m. The training session was […]

Richmond, VA (WorkersCompensation.com)–An employee may be able to collect partial disability benefits if he injures himself at work and then works fewer hours because of the injury. But what if there were other reasons the […]

Charlotte, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) -- While commonsense might say what's employment and what isn't, plenty of court cases and interpretations of law have disputed just what exactly counts as "employment" for legal purposes. Thus it's not […]

Trenton, NJ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Not long ago, New Jersey updated its rule governing permanent partial disability to explain what is a scheduled loss and what is a non-scheduled loss. So how does the Garden State […]

Matthews, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – In North Carolina, an employer may be able to defeat a workers’ compensation claim for an otherwise compensable injury by showing that a worker who was terminated for misconduct constructively refused suitable […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, also known as NSAIDs, are a class of medications that are used to treat pain, fever, and inflammatory processes. The most common types of NSAIDs are aspirin, ibuprofen, […]

Pharr, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employees died in workplace accidents involving a truck, a trench and machinery this week.    In Pharr, Texas, officials said one man died after being trapped under a box trailer Sept. 6.  […]

Boise, ID (WorkersCompensation.com) – Recently, Idaho updated its rules on final reports, with a specific focus on requirements for the state’s electronic data interchange. So, what does the new rule require? The following chart breaks […]