Explosion At Texas Construction Site Kills One Worker, Injures At Least 12
One construction worker died and at least 12 others were injured in an explosion Tuesday afternoon in a building under construction at the rear of the Coryell Memorial Healthcare System in Gatesville, officials confirmed during a news conference Tuesday evening in Gatesville.
June 27, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Property
Workers' Compensation
Texas
Settling Workers Compensation Subrogation Claims Independent Of Employees Claims
Aggressive subrogation practitioners always look for short cuts. Ours is an industry in which the “bottom line” means the difference between success and failure.
June 26, 2018
Litigation
Subrogation
Workers' Compensation
Colorado
Sex And Seafood In The Workplace
Well, its Friday, and time to shrug off the consistently negative news in exchange for a little lighter fare.
June 22, 2018
Weird
Workers' Compensation
Beverly Hills Doctor Sentenced To 10 Years For Massive Workers Comp Scheme
Beverly Hills Radiologist Ronald Grusd and two of his corporations, California Imaging Network Medical Group and Willows Consulting Company, were sentenced in federal court today after a jury trial in December resulted in convictions on 39 felony fraud counts.
June 19, 2018
Fraud
Workers' Compensation
California
Handling Spinal Cord And Traumatic Brain Injuries
Getting injured on the job is a traumatic experience for all involved. Maybe the worker fell off a roof while on the jobsite. Maybe some building materials fell on them from above. Or maybe they got into an automobile accident during the course of their normal workday.
June 12, 2018
Education & Training
Workers' Compensation
Tow Truck Driver Killed, 5 In Critical Condition After Collision
A tow truck driver was killed in a crash while servicing a school bus on eastbound I-94 near Ann Arbor Tuesday morning, according to the Michigan State Police.
May 30, 2018
Auto
Liability
Workers' Compensation
Michigan
Michigan Auto Parts Plant Fire: $8 Million In Losses
An explosion during an auto parts plant fire that ultimately stopped production of the Ford F-150 was so violent that it threw a worker through the air into a door jamb. Vehicles in the parking lot caught fire and were damaged by flying debris.
May 22, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Property
Workers' Compensation
Michigan
Ex-NFLer, A Survivor Contestant, Sued For Workers Comp Fraud
A former NFL player must face an insurance fraud lawsuit, an appeals court has ruled. The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit against former NFL defensive tackle and Survivor contestant John Broward “Brad” Culpepper, who is currently a Florida personal injury attorney.
May 8, 2018
Fraud
Workers' Compensation
California
Angry Customer Runs Over 7-Eleven Clerk
Stopping off at this 7-Eleven on Fort Smallwood Road for a quick pack of smokes may have seemed simple enough, but it ended up landing 39-year old Ryan Jenkins in jail in the wee hours of the morning Wednesday.
April 27, 2018
Workers' Compensation
Maryland
Wisconsin Refinery Explosion Under Investigation
Investigators on Friday searched for the cause of a blast at a Husky Energy refinery that injured at least 15 people and rocked a northern Wisconsin city, sending smoke billowing into the sky and prompting tens of thousands to evacuate.
April 27, 2018
Excess & Surplus Lines
Workers' Compensation
Wisconsin
Sub-Contractor Shot, Killed By Man Asking For A Cigarette
The murder of a construction worker on the job in Kansas City now has others scared to go to work. A sub-contractor working on a project for Spire Energy was shot and killed Tuesday by a man who witnesses said asked for a cigarette.
April 26, 2018
Workers' Compensation
Missouri
To Beat Opioids We Must Address The Psychology Of Pain
The battle against the US opioid crisis rages on. The epidemic, which takes the lives of over 100 Americans every day from overdoses, has been declared a public health emergency by President Trump and remains a top-of-mind issue for various industries nationwide.
April 19, 2018
Workers' Compensation
Its Work Zone Awareness Week; Three PennDOT Workers Struck
Authorities say three highway workers were struck and injured on a Monroe County interstate. Officials said the accident happened Tuesday afternoon in a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation construction zone in the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 in Tobyhanna Township.
April 11, 2018
Auto
Liability
Workers' Compensation
Pennsylvania
Woman Collected Dead Mothers Comp Benefits For Years
A New Jersey woman has been accused of stealing more than $46,000 by collecting her dead mothers workers compensation dependency benefits for nearly three years.
April 3, 2018
Fraud
Workers' Compensation
New Jersey
South Carolina BMW Plant Worker Killed By Machinery
First responders were called to the scene of an accidental death at the BMW manufacturing plant in Spartanburg County on Wednesday.
March 29, 2018
Workers' Compensation
South Carolina



