Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit accusing a construction company of misclassifying workers and paying them in cash in an effort to skirt laws intended to protect workers.
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The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld the authorization of a spinal cord stimulator trial for a worker with chronic back pain from a train accident that happened more than a decade earlier.
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The Alabama Supreme Court rejected an employer’s claim for reimbursement of the benefits it had paid to an injured employee from his recovery under two uninsured motorist policies.
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A California appellate court ruled that the Privette doctrine barred a worker from pursuing a tort claim against a property owner and its employee for his fall from a scaffold…
Federal prosecutors announced that a neurosurgeon pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and admitted receiving about $3.3 million in kickbacks to perform spinal surgeries at Pacific Hospital of Long…
The National Council on Compensation Insurance in late August released its updated legislative activity report for 2022, highlighting that bills that address mental injuries suffered by workers continue to trend…