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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced the U.S. Department of Transportation and Better Business Bureau would collaborate to educate consumers and businesses about the dangers of distracted driving.
Adjusters have a stressful job with too many things to do. In such an environment, it is easy to make mistakes costing the insurer money -- costs passed on to the employer in the form of higher workers compensation premiums. Here are eight mistakes to watch for.
Employers should request inclusion in weekly discussions of serious workers compensation claims. The roundtable discussion provides a forum where the adjusters and employer provide input benefiting everyone involved.
In today's insurance world, most workers compensation adjusters are specialists in work comp and have little, if any, background in liability claims. This results in the work comp adjusters often missing subrogation opportunities.
A pulmonary embolism brought on by the requirements of the job is a compensable injury under New Jersey's workers compensation statutes governing cardiovascular injury or death.
Injuries to the musculoskeletal system are the most prevalent type of workers compensation injuries. Almost all musculoskeletal injuries involve some degree of pain -- mild to severe -- depending on the extent of the injury and the employee's threshold for pain tolerance.
Arizona-based High-Tech Institute Inc., doing business as Anthem College Online, will pay $260,000 as part of a settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
A Michigan dairy farm and its two owners recently plead guilty to charges of employing illegal aliens, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.
A woman was arrested and charged with one count of insurance fraud by the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit. State police said the investigation stemmed from a complaint made by the National Teachers Associates Life Insurance Company alleging the woman submitted fraudulent medical invoices to support an injury claim.
Parents of a woman who drowned after her car missed a bridge cannot sue the contractor who worked on and fixed the bridge. Justice Debra Lehrmann stated that any decision to rectify the condition would have had the effect of changing the terms of a contract.
A man working with Toronto-based Asbescan Environmental Co., Inc., received a fine of $15,000 for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
The number of work-related deaths in North West England has risen by 35 percent in the past year, new figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show.
In an effort to increase safety for attendants at gas stations, the Ontario Ministry of Labor is considering imposing a prepaid policy following an attendant's death in a "gas and dash" incident.
WorkCover NSW of Australia is leaving workers compensation industry classification rates unchanged for 2011-12, according to information from the Work Cover Authority of NSW. Each year the NSW government approves rates the WorkCover Scheme charges employers for workers compensation coverage.
The number of serious injuries in Nova Scotia workplaces is at its lowest level in 15 years, the Workers Compensation Board of Nova Scotia announced in its 2010 annual report. In 2010, 6,921 people suffered serious injury on the job. In 1995, there were 10,515 time loss injuries.
June 28 marked the publication by the Health & Safety Executive of the 2010-11 workplace fatal injury statistics for Great Britain. HSE notes the underlying five-year trend for workplace fatalities continues downward. The number of such deaths in 2010-11 was 171 workers killed, lower than the five-year average. | 
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