Category: Workers’ Compensation

Health care workers suffer more injuries and illnesses on the job than those in any other industry, thanks in large part to limited federal safety standards and inspections of health care facilities, says a new report by a national advocacy non-profit.

The report by Public Citizen shows health care workers had about 654,000...

New York Workers’ Compensation Board revises Medical Treatment Guidelines effective March 1, 2013:

The New York Workers’ Compensation Board has implemented revisions and additions to the 2010 Medical Treatment Guidelines as of March 1, 2013. Perhaps the most important change to these Guidelines includes a provision that will allow for 10 annual sessions of “maintenance...

A federal judge in New Orleans accepted an agreement for BP to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges and pay a record fine in connection with the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which ranks as one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters.

The agreement, announced in November, allowed a unit of...

Thousands of individuals could receive new hearings on their disability benefit claims as part of a proposed settlement addressing allegations of hostility and bias against five federal administrative law judges in Queens, New York.

The proposed class action settlement, filed Friday in Brooklyn federal court, aims to resolve a 2011 lawsuit accusing the five administrative...

Can you collect Workers' Compensation benefits while you're working?

Most Workers' Compensation claimants are not aware that if they return to work after their injury, whether with the same employer where they were injured or another, that they may still be eligible to receive a Workers' Compensation award. If the injured worker earns...