Workers' Compensation

JULY 10, 2024

An active hurricane season can significantly impact the workers' compensation system in terms of claims and losses. Geographic considerations: Coastal areas and regions more prone to hurricane impacts will likely see greater effects on their workers' compensation systems. Disclaimer Download Adobe Reader

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Workers' Compensation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The new rule is expected to have a significant impact on employers. Despite the long legacy of severe and fatal claims, including lung cancer and mesothelioma, brought within the workers’ compensation system, the substance is still being used in products, and exposure continues from asbestos already in place in occupational settings.

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Workers' Compensation

JUNE 17, 2024

Benefit amount is reduced by some Social Security benefits and employer disability pensions. Bill does not affect existing offsets between workers' compensation and Social Security disability benefits. Disclaimer Download Adobe Reader Funded from the General Fund, not the Second Injury Fund (SIF) like pre-1980 cases.

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Workers' Compensation

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Wearing an employer-designated work uniform shouldn’t result in severe and debilitating occupational exposures. Unfortunately, some American Airlines flight attendants suffered injuries from wearing the flight uniforms prescribed by their employer. Disclaimer Download Adobe Reader Million award. All rights reserved.

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Workers' Compensation

JANUARY 17, 2024

The bill amends current workers’ compensation law to add that a response to an emergency, including work sufficient to cause certain injuries or death, is compensable. In addition, paid, part-paid, or volunteer firefighters and police officers and members of a volunteer first aid or rescue squad are eligible for compensation.

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Achievers

MAY 17, 2018

After several evolutionary waves, we have a deeper insight into what truly motivates people, and today’s incentives are about far more than compensation. Furthermore, as the IRF puts it, standard compensation systems that rewarded people for just showing up and completing their baseline tasks are no longer enough. “To

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HR Bartender

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Fortunately, I worked for an employer that was open to modified duty. It sounds like this employer is as well. The term modified duty is generally exclusive to workers’ compensation but can also be used when accommodating an employee under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA.). My recovery took years.

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