A semitrailer carrying hazardous material crashed on Interstate 90 in central Washington state, killing the driver, sending fumes into the air and causing some residences to be temporarily evacuated.
Right now, rescue crews are on the scene of a civilian helicopter crash in Iberia Parish. According to Sheriff Louis Ackal, the crash happened in the Atchafalaya Basin in the Iberia Parish panhandle. Ackal says at least one person is in the water.
A medical transport plane crashed in northern California killing all four people onboard Friday. Around 12:30 a.m. local time Friday, the Piper Cheyenne aircraft containing three crew members and one patient departed from airport in Crescent City, California -- about 20 miles south of Oregon.
A man who was buried when a trench collapsed in Minnetonka has died. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner says 48-year-old Jimmy Scott Klous of Onamia died at 11:16 a.m. Monday at Hennepin County Medical Center.
Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that a Far Rockaway restaurant owner was arrested this morning for allegedly lying about her injuries and employment status in order to wrongfully receive more than $69,000 in disability and workers’ compensation insurance payments.
The woman killed in an explosion Monday at a Benson-area home was a property inspector who had gone there to check its condition after the evicted tenant had cleared out.
Two workers with a highway maintenance crew were struck and killed by a dump truck while working on Route 11 in Augusta County on Tuesday. The two workers, Felimon V. Aizpuro II, 38, of Staunton, Va., and Debbie S. Huffman, 50, of Port Republic, Va., both died at the scene, according to the Virginia State Police.
A Santa Barbara police officer charged with insurance fraud was competing in “strongman” contests for at least two years while on paid injury leave, records show.
The state Supreme Court has ruled that a nearly 100-year-old provision in state law that allows agricultural employers to opt out of the workers’ compensation system is unconstitutional.
Two people were killed when a Bell Helicopter aircraft they were testing crashed in a rural area about 40 miles south of Dallas. A Federal Aviation Administration statement said the Bell 525 Relentless helicopter was destroyed in the accident Wednesday in Ellis County.
California women routinely receive less in workers’ compensation than men, a lawsuit filed on Wednesday alleged, partly because of stereotypes that lead to unfair reductions in benefits and an overwhelming majority of male medical examiners.
First responders are unable to return to work, because they cannot get their worker’s comp claims approved. Now, lawmakers are trying to change the law they say is responsible.
Big Data is changing the way the world does business, and this is nowhere more true than in the financial realm. According to Dax Craig, CEO of Valen Analytics, more than half of all property and casualty insurers are now using predictive analytics to determine pricing and simply to decide which risks are more or less attractive to insure.
Snake oil salesmen in the 1800s made a living selling potions with extravagant healing claims that were patently false. Medical con artists, like all con artists, trade in ignorance.
Grainy video projected onto a screen depicted a man in waders casting with a fly rod while traversing a bank of river rock — his face pixelated to protect his identity. He was receiving workers’ comp benefits at the time for an injured shoulder.
