The National Safety Council (NSC) recently reported that 75% of US employers have been directly affected by the opioid epidemic. According to the NSC, the construction industry is one of the worst-affected sectors, with twice the national average number of employees with substance use disorders.

Crews located another body on Sunday at the site of a large explosion at a Waukegan industrial plant, officials said, bringing the death toll from that incident to three with one person still unaccounted for.

Business owners in construction-related companies know that falls in the workplace have a ripple effect of difficult impacts.

Ever try to talk to a 14-year-old about workers’ comp? I’ve tried with my son. I typically get a blank stare for a second before I lose him to Instagram.

Dramatic dashcam video shows the moment a crane came crashing down at Google’s new campus in Seattle on Saturday. Four people were killed, including college student Sarah Wong and iron worker Travis Corbet, and four others were hurt.

In California, the option to seek care in Mexico is producing better outcomes and reduced cost of claims in workers’ comp.

A Georgia appeals court is asked to decide if a worker’s injury falls within the coming and going rule while she’s off the clock.

A performance report on the first five years of California’s independent bill review program reveals that claims adjusters’ billing decisions rarely align with how the state workers’ comp system sees things.

Security cameras in a company cafeteria recently captured a brazen attempt to fake a workers’ compensation injury. The video shows that the man dumped a cup of ice onto the floor, disposed of the cup and then lay down on the floor as though he slipped on the ice. Prosecutors have charged the man with insurance fraud and theft by deception.

The workplace is evolving, to the point that many people have no actual “place” from which to work. Some do their jobs remotely, while others work from locations such as their cars, if they are part of the gig economy.

Six years ago, in 2013, I started my campaign to rebrand the workers’ compensation industry. As many people know, I believe it should be called “Workers’ Recovery.” The idea isn’t simply to change the name; the belief has been that the simple adjustment of one word would shift the focus of our industry, reduce litigation, save money and improve outcomes.

Workplace injuries cost US companies more than $1 billion per week, according to new data from Liberty Mutual.

A gas explosion that partially collapsed a North Carolina building and set it ablaze Wednesday morning killed one person and injured more than a dozen others, police said.

Workers compensation payers should face up to the inevitability that they will have to pay for medical marijuana pain treatments for injured workers despite any concerns they have, experts say.

When investigating a workers compensation claim, the employer and insurer/servicing agent are given limited time to make a tough decision: accept or deny the claim.