Georgia lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a resolution that would create a legislative committee to study maximum weekly workers’ compensation indemnity benefits.
HR 1024 states that Georgia’s maximum weekly temporary total disability benefit,…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a Pennsylvania hot tub manufacturer for continuing to expose workers to a dangerous chemical.
In November 2021, OSHA inspectors found that Strong Industries…
A Louisiana appellate court overturned a default judgment against two defendants who were never properly served with a workers’ compensation claim.
Case: Brown v. Stratis Construction LLC, No. 2021 CA 0964,…
A recent federal court ruling holding that a migrant farmworker’s death from COVID-19 fell within the scope of workers’ compensation law is part of a growing body of rulings that…
The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a determination that a worker failed to establish that his rotator cuff tear was caused, in major part, by the work-related hip injury.
Case: In…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration imposed penalties of $26,107 against a bankrupt waste facility in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for exposing workers to hazardous, chemical-laden smoke.
Community Eco Power LLC burned trash to generate power,…