After shutting down its "black lung" program more than a year ago, Johns Hopkins Hospital is under fire for claims it didn’t follow federal guidelines in determining hundreds of coal miners were not qualified for disability benefits.<br />
For the second time in two months, a pipeline that supplies gasoline to millions of people was shut down, raising the specter of another round of gas shortages and price increases.
The WCIRB expands its research on regional differences in California workers’ compensation claim costs and frequency with the release of its second report, the 2016 Study of Geographic Differences in California Workers’ Compensation Claim Costs.
A chain of Cleveland area medical clinics that specialize in treating injured workers, its former co-owner and a doctor who worked there have been indicted on criminal racketeering charges.
A man painting a mural on the side of a Hollywood Beach high-rise under construction was killed Monday and another painter was critically injured in the second South Florida scaffolding collapse in just under a week.
A recreational vehicle salesman who claimed he couldn’t work because of an on-the-job injury has been ordered to pay back more than $81,000 in state disability benefits.
One person died and multiple people were hurt after scaffolding fell from a high-rise building under construction in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation is taking a promising pilot program statewide to help simplify and speed resolution of some disputes. <br />
Authorities say a natural gas explosion and fire at a townhouse complex in suburban Chicago has injured two utility workers.<br />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.
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.
