Boiler Explosion: At Least 3 Killed, 4 Injured At Missouri Business

Three people are dead and four were injured after a boiler exploded at a box company near Soulard.
April 3, 2017 Liability Property Workers' Compensation Missouri

Construction Worker Crushed By Safe Deposit Box

Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say a construction worker was crushed to death by a safety deposit box. Cheltenham Township police say the incident happened at an old Wells Fargo in the Cheltenham Mall around 1 p.m. Monday.
March 30, 2017 Workers' Compensation Pennsylvania

Pictures Don’t Lie: Fighting Fraud With 3-D Imaging

In January 2014, Stacy developed a lingering cough. By June, it had morphed into a hacking cough that would not cease. Something wasn’t right. Over a six-month span, Stacy went to her primary-care physician three times.
March 29, 2017 Fraud Liability Litigation Workers' Compensation

Salem Painter Electrocuted After Contacting Live Wires

A contractor in Salem was killed Tuesday afternoon when he came in contact with a live wire and was electrocuted. Around 3 p.m. the 59-year-old man was painting window sills on the side of a firehouse in a metal lift when the accident happened.
March 22, 2017 Workers' Compensation Massachusetts

17 Homes Damaged By Massive Blaze At Nearby Construction Site

Hours after it broke out, firefighters from across the metro are still battling a massive fire at an apartment complex in Overland Park. The fire is at the building of the $450 million City Place development in the area of College Avenue and Switzer Road.
March 21, 2017 Excess & Surplus Lines Property Subrogation Workers' Compensation Kansas

Hazmat Spill From Truck Kills Driver, Closes Ontario Highway

A stretch of Highway 401 through eastern Ontario remained closed early Wednesday following weather-related collisions that left one person dead, 28 people injured and officials scrambling to contain a chemical spill.
March 17, 2017 Auto Excess & Surplus Lines Liability Workers' Compensation

Family Filed Wrongful Death Suit After Robot Killed Factory Worker

At the sprawling auto-parts factory, while working in the male-dominated industry of robot technicians, Wanda Holbrook was in a league of her own. The 57-year-old Grand Rapids, Mich., woman had a specialty of fixing robots if something went wrong.
March 15, 2017 Liability Litigation Workers' Compensation Michigan

Firefighter Injured In Crash On Way To Hoverboard Fire Dies

A Pennsylvania fire official who was wounded in a crash while responding to fire that killed a young girl has died of his injuries, authorities said.
March 13, 2017 Auto Liability Property Workers' Compensation Pennsylvania

30 Convicted In Elaborate Postal Service Comp Fraud Scheme That Generated Millions

McArthur Baker, 69, a former U.S. Postal Service employee, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Worker’s Compensation Program (OWCP), announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
March 8, 2017 Fraud Workers' Compensation Texas

Belligerent Employee Attacks Co-Worker, Files Workers’ Comp Claim

What started as a workplace dispute at an Irvine industrial plant, culminating with an alleged attack on a co-worker, led to insurance fraud charges for a 65-year-old Lake Forest man, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
March 1, 2017 Fraud Workers' Compensation California

Surveillance Exposed Former Police Sergeant’s False Injury Claim

A former Cromwell police sergeant was arrested today and charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud after he was seen doing construction work at his home after an on-the-job injury supposedly left him unable to work.
February 28, 2017 Fraud Workers' Compensation Connecticut

Oklahoma Supreme Court: Adjuster’s Fall While Leaving Office Compensable

The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a worker was “acting in the course and scope of his employment” when he fell while leaving work, and therefore can receive workers compensation benefits.
February 27, 2017 Workers' Compensation Oklahoma

Dayton Claims Rep Is Ohio BWC’s Fraud Finder Of The Year

A claims service specialist (CSS) in the Dayton service office received the 2016 Fraud Finder of the Year award Jan. 26 from BWC’s Special Investigations Department (SID).
February 27, 2017 Fraud Workers' Compensation Ohio

Contractors Burned In Explosion After Track Hoe Hit Gas Pipe

Four people have been hospitalized with burns after a truck hit a gas line in Wagoner County Thursday night. Emergency personnel say private contractors were working with a track hoe when they struck a natural gas pipe, causing the explosion.
February 27, 2017 Excess & Surplus Lines Workers' Compensation Oklahoma

Opioid Use: Adjuster, Injured Worker And Provider Perspectives

Over the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of opioids in workers’ compensation. Opioids are being prescribed for many conditions for which they were not originally intended.
February 24, 2017 Risk Management Workers' Compensation
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