The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is taking a promising pilot program statewide to help simplify and speed resolution of some disputes.

Authorities say a natural gas explosion and fire at a townhouse complex in suburban Chicago has injured two utility workers.
The explosion in Romeoville was reported Tuesday evening.

Over 9 billion tons — that is how much freight is moved across the country each year, according to the American Trucking Associations. To get that much cargo picked up and delivered requires 3 million truck drivers. Simply put, without truckers, the nation comes to a grinding halt.

Michigan workers and job providers continue to benefit from Michigan’s workers’ compensation system as the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) announced today that the pure premium advisory rate for workers’ compensation insurance will drop by an average of 9.3 percent in 2017.

Will next year’s legislative battle over workers’ compensation rates prove so all-consuming that other state priorities starve for attention?

A battalion chief who had been considered a rising star in the Fire Department of New York was killed Tuesday when a row house exploded as he was supervising an evacuation following a report of a gas leak, and authorities are looking into whether the building was being used to grow marijuana.

A house believed to be a drug den exploded in the Bronx Tuesday, injuring at least seven people, including firefighters, according to police and fire officials.

Diabetes—and its growing prevalence across the nation—is a top concern for workers’ compensation programs due to the medical complications and increased costs that the condition brings to claims.

A Texas woman is demanding $50 million for being "literally cooked" when a floor collapsed at a Church’s Chicken restaurant and covered her in boiling fryer grease.

Following years of declines, the percentage of employees in the combined U.S. workforce testing positive for drugs has steadily increased over the last three years to a 10-year high, according to an analysis of nearly 11 million workforce drug test results by Quest Diagnostics.

A group of men in hard hats and neon vests stood staring up in silent reverence at the towering Oklahoma City construction project that had minutes earlier claimed a man’s life, that of their co-worker.

Three people were killed Tuesday in a helicopter crash in Palm Bay near Osmosis Drive, police said. Brevard County Fire Rescue hazmat personnel were at the scene near Bayside High School, along with the Palm Bay Fire Department.

A Waterbury woman was arrested today and charged with illegally collecting $22,000 in Workers’ Compensation benefits.
ROSAURA RODRIGUEZ, age 51, of 161 Prospect Street, Waterbury, was arrested by Inspectors from the Workers’ Compensation Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney on an arrest warrant charging her with one count of Fraudulent Claim or Receipt of Benefits.

A bus with an unlicensed driver spun out of control near New Orleans on Sunday, killing two people and injuring 41, while taking volunteers to help with Louisiana flood relief, officials said.

There’s no question that driver fatigue poses a serious threat to safety on our nation’s roadways. But just how bad is the threat?