Workers compensation provides wage and medical benefits to employees injured on the job. Although workers’ compensation is typically the only benefit many workers will receive following an injury, there are exceptions. Situations that may enable you to pursue damages in addition workers’ compensation fall under third party liability claims or incidences where your injury was… Read More »
Construction Workers at Risk for Musculoskeletal Injuries
With the weather holding in the Des Moines area, construction work inside and outside has continued unabated. Unfortunately, the frenetic pace can lead to debilitating workplace injuries. In fact, despite improvements over the last couple of decades, construction workers remain at high risk for on-the-job injuries to tendons, joints, muscles and nerves. Usually these injuries… Read More »
Denied Workers’ Compensation? NFL Players Feel Your Pain
Even high paid football players are subject to workers’ compensation which bars workers from suing employers for work-related injuries and illnesses requiring all claims to go through the workers’ comp system. Take the case of punter Brett Hartmann of the Houston Texans whose career came to a screeching halt when his foot caught between seams… Read More »
Worker Fatalities Increase in 2015
According to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report, the total number of workplace injuries in the U.S. increased in 2015. A total of 4,836 of these injuries proved fatal, a slight rise over the 4,821 work fatalities reported the previous year, although 2015 marked the most work-related fatalities since 2008. Heavy and tractor-trailer truck… Read More »
Workers’ Comp Move Over… Alternatives Pushed by Business
Earlier this year, some of the biggest employers in America launched a campaign to get laws passed enabling companies to opt out of state workers’ compensation plans, hoping to replace them with less-costly, alternative plans developed by employers. Proponents say alternative plans will save companies money by removing bureaucracy and provide better medical care. With… Read More »
