Background: Whereas national prevalence estimates for workers' compensation benefits are available, incidence estimates are not. Moreover, few studies address which groups in the economy pay for ...

Due to the risk of COVID-19 exposure at the workplace, many states have enacted legislation to include the contraction of COVID-19 as a compensable workers’ compensation “occupational disease.” Just ...

September 13, 2021 - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, state legislatures across the country have acted to more clearly define how workers infected with COVID-19 in the course of their employment ...

When employers try to secure coverage for workplace risks, two policies often seem similar but operate very differently: Workmen's Compensation Insurance Policy and Occupational Hazards Insurance.

The First District Court of Appeal reversed a compensation judge’s denial of indemnity benefits to a former employee who developed atrial fibrillation months after resigning from his job. The ...

Today, more Police Officers and Firefighters will die by suicide than in the line of duty. 1 “You don’t realize what’s happening to you when you’re going through the years of layered secondary trauma, ...