Source: NCCI Today's post comes from guest author Jon Gelman from Jon Gelman, LLC - Attorney at Law.Employers and their insurance companies are responsible for the treatment of all medical conditions that arise from an industrial accident or exposure. A recent study published by The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) concludes that costs are soaring [...]
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 [...]
The South Carolina Supreme Court found that an exotic dancer was an "Independent Contractor," not an employee. Today's post comes from guest author Tom Domer from The Domer Law Firm.What a wacky week in the world of worker’s compensation. We found that a stripper who was seriously injured by a bullet fired at the club [...]
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 blog from our colleagues Nathan Hammons and Charlie Domer of Wisconsin. While this post contains many references to Wisconsin law, we think it is a valuable examination of the topic of domestic servants as employees who are protected by workers’ compensation. Most families in Wisconsin have hired a baby-sitter or [...]
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 post is from our colleague Charlie Domer of Wisconsin. Surgeries are commonplace after a work injury. When an injured worker in Wisconsin has a post-injury surgery, that worker is ordinarily entitled to a minimum percentage of permanent disability. Permanent partial disability (PPD) generally represents a physician’s assessment of a worker’s functional loss. [...]
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's post comes to us from our colleague Jon Gelman of New Jersey. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that U.S. adults receive, on average, 7–9 hours of sleep per night; however, 37.1% of adults report regularly sleeping <7 hours per night. Persons reporting sleeping <7 hours on average during a 24-hour interval are more likely to [...]