Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Tyler, TX (WorkersCompensation.com) – Workplace shootings took the lives of five employees in separate incidents over the past week.  In Tyler, Texas, a patient is behind bars after fatally shooting two doctors at a dentist’s […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Promoting physical activity can reduce turnover, absenteeism and disability and improve productivity, suggests a new study. Researchers in Finland found that workers who spent their leisure time being physically active and […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The term, “care team segregation” is a phenomenon that occurs when some teams of providers in the same hospital primarily see white patients, while other teams primarily see minorities. Segregation of […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Challenger explosion; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.  All three disasters had one thing in common: lack of sleep. Root cause investigations showed that in […]

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – With remote and hybrid work – as well as school closures and quarantine – likely here to stay as part of the new normal emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, caregiver discrimination […]

Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Online retailer Amazon will offer its workers in downtown Seattle alternative office locations instead of returning them to an office at 3rd Avenue and Pine Street.    The office, formerly a Macy’s […]

Sarasota, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that Greenville Ready Mix Concrete Products Inc. of Smithfield, Rhode Island could face up to $43K in penalties. The penalties resulted after […]

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Although the worst of the pandemic may be in the past, some level of remote work appears to be here to stay, raising issues of how employers go about handling remote […]