Today's post comes from Kristina Thompson, attorney at the Jernigan Law Firm. Do I need to buy workers' compensation insurance in North Carolina? Here's the general rule: in North Carolina, if you are an employer and regularly employ three or more employees, you must have workers' compensation insurance. Seems pretty straight forward, right? For such a [...]
If you are hurt at work make sure to follow these guidelines to protect your rights Today's post comes from guest author Todd Jones from Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano.When you're injured at work in New York, people often ask what they should do immediately following the accident. There are several basic things [...]
NFL players can qualify for workers' compensation benefitsThe injury rate in the NFL is 100 percent. If you stay around long enough you will have multiple injuries. This high “natural” injury rate makes it hard to understand how a team could give awards to players who injure other players, but that's just what the New [...]
Today we have a guest post from our colleague Todd Bennett of Nebraska. Every employer not in agriculture, farm or ranch operations is required to obtain and maintain workers’’ compensation coverage for all employees. Those employers who voluntarily and willfully fail to obtain and maintain coverage violate the law and subject themselves to significant [...]
Today we have a guest post from our colleague Brody Ockander of Nebraska. If a worker dies from a work accident or occupational disease, his surviving family members are entitled to death benefits under Nebraska workers'’ compensation. However, proving the death was work-related is sometimes complicated in situations where there is not a clear accident. [...]
Today’s guest post comes to us from our colleague Matt Funk of New York. Many times insurance medical examinations are considered by injured employees to be the same as Independent Medical Examinations (IMEs). There is nothing farther from the truth. These examinations are bought and paid for by the insurance company and for their benefit. [...]
Today we have a guest post from our colleague Tom Domer or Wisconsin. We get calls every day from angry injured workers’ who want to sue their employer for negligence. It could be an employer removing a guard on a machine, a foreman ignoring a safety rule, or an injury caused by an employer’s failure [...]
Today we have a guest post from our colleague Tom Domer of Wisconsin. Wisconsin pays worker’s compensation benefits based only on the job on which an employee works, even if the employee’s injury makes it impossible for him to work in his regular job. In these difficult economic times, many workers’ are forced to take [...]
Today’s post comes to us from our colleague Roger Moore of Nebraska. In virtually all workers’’ compensation cases an injured worker has to return to work in some capacity. Often these are very stressful situations and it is not uncommon for issues to arrise including conflict with an employer over what a safe [...]
Today's post comes to us courtesy of our colleague Paul McAndrew of Iowa. According to a recent decision by the Texas Supreme Court, a temporary employee cannot be excluded from an employers’ workers'’ compensation policy. In 2005, Rafael Casados was killed on his third day at work at a grain storage facility owned by Port [...]