Workers’ compensation customers entrust their carrier to both take care of their injured employee and protect their company from financial harm. Each claim is unique, and workers’ comp claims adjusters often feel like they are expected to be jugglers or even magicians.
From billboards to daytime TV, advertisements for the law firm of Jacoby & Meyers are inescapable. It can be difficult getting through a television show or sporting event without hitting a commercial for the 49-year-old law group, said to have 300 attorneys in 50 states.
A medical marijuana patient is suing his former employer, claiming the company terminated his refinery job after he used prescribed cannabis while off the clock.
The words ‘platform’ and ‘ecosystem’ are trending and in danger of becoming overused and losing their true meaning, but when used in the proper context they are powerful and highly relevant.
Yesterday the Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators (SAWCA) announced that their Annual Conference scheduled for this summer would be an in-person event.
The working world is changing. Even before COVID-19, remote work was gaining popularity. As employees sought greater flexibility and advances in telecommuting removed barriers, some employers offered work-from-home options as an incentive to attract and retain top talent, save money and sharpen their competitive edge.
Over a year since the first shut down, and the windy road to a pre-pandemic world remains bumpy. For employers, this means responding to yet another COVID-19 occupational health concern arising from long-haul COVID-19 symptoms.
The New Jersey Supreme Court just issued a decision that requires insurers and employers to reimburse injured workers for the use of medical marijuana. In the case, lawyers for an employer argued that reimbursing for medical marijuana would in effect be ‘aiding and abetting and conspiracy liability under federal law.’
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of medical cannabis patients Tuesday, voting unanimously that a construction company must pay for an injured employee’s medical cannabis bills.
It is Spring across the nation. The season’s many familiar rituals, like flowers in the field, are in full bloom. Foliage is turning green, birds are singing, bees are humming, and State Legislatures are getting down to the task once again of ‘fixing’ their workers’ comp system.
Six people were rescued near the coast of Louisiana after a commercial boat capsized about eight miles off Port Fourchon on the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard said late Tuesday.
National Comp — the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference — is back! After a year of challenges and uncertainties, what we know for sure sure is that National Comp is the place to be this October in Las Vegas.