Workers' Compensation Daily Headlines

Case File A worker died with "permanent" loss of vision related to a fall on the job, but that didn't entitle his surviving spouse to permanency benefits because there was no finding of maximum medical […]

Case File The West Virgina top court upheld an Office of Judges' decision that found in a worker's favor on the basis that the employer didn't connect the dots between an alleged preexisting condition and […]

Bellows Falls, VT (WorkersCompensation.com) – Whether an employer’s workers’ compensation coverage applies when an employee is injured in another state depends on the state’s WCA–and how courts decide to interpret it. A case involving a […]

Brooklyn, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Metropolitan Transit Authority workers continue to be injured on the job, and some are finding new ways to cope, officials said. Only July 25, MTA officials said an MTA bus driver […]

What Do You Think? Lima, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Employers are entitled to require a fitness-for-duty certification from a doctor before reinstating an employee who is on FMLA leave. But can they go beyond that by […]

Climate & Comp Fayetteville, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) – The recent death of a Fayetteville, N.C. postal worker is being investigated as heat-related. The death comes just months after the USPS was fined by OSHA for a […]

Tampa, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – OSHA is investigating a workplace fatality at the Tampa International Airport after an equipment operator was killed in an accident there. His death was one of many fatal workplace incidents across […]

Goodlettsville, TN (WorkersCompensation.com) – Dollar General agreed to pay a $12 million fine and improve conditions at its retail stores across the country, officials with the U.S. Labor Department said last month. According to a […]