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Employees Continue to Suffer Attacks from Customers in Separate Incidents
Employees Continue to Suffer Attacks from Customers in Separate Incidents

Sandusky, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – Customers continued to take their aggressions out on employees this past week in separate incidents across the country.    In Sandusky, Ohio, an amusement park employee was allegedly attacked by a park […]
New Ranking Shows West Virginia has Three Times Higher Preventable Deaths Rate
New Ranking Shows West Virginia has Three Times Higher Preventable Deaths Rate

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – A new healthcare analysis from MoneyGeek, a technology company that specializes in personal finance, has ranked Hawaii as the top state in the country for healthcare.  Using data from the Kaiser […]
3 Factors that May Signal ADA Retaliation — and How to Respond
3 Factors that May Signal ADA Retaliation — and How to Respond

Indianapolis, IN (WorkersCompensation.com). What if an employer fires a worker 48 hours after she exercised her ADA rights? That never looks good for the employer. But it’s not necessarily the end of the story.  As […]
One Worker Dead as Shootings Stop Production on Two TV Shows
One Worker Dead as Shootings Stop Production on Two TV Shows

Brooklyn, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Filming came to a halt last week after shootings rang out on set, killing one worker and coming close to harming another, witnesses said.   In Brooklyn filming for the television show […]
Company Vehicle, Training, Paid hotels, Show Foreman was Roofer's Employee
Company Vehicle, Training, Paid hotels, Show Foreman was Roofer's Employee

Frankfort, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A worker can’t collect worker’s compensation benefits from a company if there’s no employee-employer relationship.  But whether a worker is an employee is more about substance than labels, as shown in […]
New Study Associates Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Changes in Brain Integrity
New Study Associates Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Changes in Brain Integrity

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Lack of sleep has been closely associated with both cognitive decline and workplace accidents. According to statistics cited by the Sleep Foundation, in 2017 it is estimated that at least 91,000 […]
Threat to Squeeze worker's Testicle Helps Drive Retaliation Case to Trial
Threat to Squeeze worker's Testicle Helps Drive Retaliation Case to Trial

Merrimack, NH (WorkersCompensation.com)–Even if a supervisor’s verbal abuse predates an employee’s FMLA leave, the escalation of abuse when an employee returns to work can help link it to the worker’s protected status.  The fact that […]
DEIB Comes into Focus at WCI, Building on 2021 Gains
DEIB Comes into Focus at WCI, Building on 2021 Gains

Orlando, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging might not be the first things that come to mind when people think of workers' compensation. But as wtih so many areas of industrial life, many […]

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