A federal judge has upheld a 2012 ruling that stated any Kansas City Chiefs football player that wanted to file for workers’ compensation benefits needed to file in the state of Missouri. Workers’ compensation claims from former NFL players has been a hot button topic of late, and the majority of the talks have centered [...]
A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that employees who have the ability to take paid sick leave were 28 percent less likely to be injured on the job than people who can’t take paid sick leave. The study, conducted by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, [...]
A Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel recently ruled that an on-call employee was an exception to the “coming and going rule”, meaning that the employee was eligible to receive workers’ compensation benefits. The case began when Tina Shannon was injured in a motor vehicle accident on her way home from work. Shannon served as a [...]
A Canadian man who fought in mixed martial arts matches while collecting workers’ compensation payments will be forced to pay back the money he received over the next five years. Shaun Pauliuk, 35, pled guilty last week to defrauding the Workers’ Compensation Board of over $20,000. Pauliuk initially filed the workers’ compensation claim in October [...]
