Arizona is a work-at-will state, meaning that your employer can also fire you at will for any reason, or no reason. The only time an Arizona employer cannot fire you is if it was done just because you filed a claim for your injury or...
Attending public or specialized schools, or teaching students, is not always the safest job anymore. Teachers and other school officials have been assaulted by teenage students and in some cases, severely injured, both physically and emotionally. In a recent case in Tennessee, the courts concluded that...
Contingent fees are often known as the “poor man’s key to the courthouse.” In the context of workers’ comp cases, it is the poor man’s key to the Industrial Commission. A contingent fee agreement postulates that the workers’ comp lawyer for the injured worker is paid...
Jessica Wilson of Utah had parked her car at her place of work with Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) and on her way walking to the building's entrance, she slipped and fell, suffering extensive injury to one of her feet. The damage was severe enough to...
Drug companies who want doctors to write prescriptions for the drugs they make would do well to not ask physicians out to dinner and drinks, in order to get them to write these prescriptions. Questcor, a subsidiary of the global drug company, Mallinckrodt, allegedly, wined...
Injuries on the job can lead to more problems than just filing claims and having a doctor supervise one’s recovery process. While we typically think of recovery time as spent at home, severe injuries may put that employee under the care of a healthcare facility. Today’s...
Crane accidents have been reduced since 1992 when tracking and recording crane accidents and fatalities first began. In 2017, there were 33 fatalities nationwide, due to crane accidents, and this amount is considered the lowest count since 1992, as reported at WorkersCompensation.com. Depending on the work...
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Over the last 10 years, fatalities in large-truck accidents have reduced by 10 percent across the United States, from 4,822 in 2007, to 4,317 in 2016, according to statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The trucking industry and its commercially-licensed (CDL) drivers...
No one is ever prepared to get injured on the job or that it could happen to you. But if it does, you should be prepared to take the right steps for your treatment, recovery and workers’ comp claim. Here is information about a few...