New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- As an employer or workers’ compensation carrier in New York, when should you fight a COVID-19-related claim, and when should you not? A case involving a worker who drove sick […]

Case File Work is stressful—sometimes very stressful. But an employee is unlikely to have a compensable claim based on stress alone. Instead, she’ll have to show that stress was out of the ordinary—greater than what […]

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) issued a special directive to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City to address “an escalating pattern of safety incidents” regarding workers.   The […]

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? Goshen, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – Staffing agencies send employees out to work at a host of other company’s facilities. Do those employees become employees of the other companies for purposes of workers’ […]

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – A 62-year-old worker is recovering after being beaten inside a corner deli in Woodside, one of several attacks on workers over the past few weeks. Police said that on the […]

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- How much do you know about what the fee schedule in New York involves? Let's have a look. Purchases The maximum permissible charge for the purchase of durable medical equipment, […]

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Beginning July 1, New York's Workers' Compensation Board will use a desk review process in place of a formal hearing to review Section 32 waiver agreements involving claimants who are […]