Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. Drug Monitoring, Interventions Decrease Opioid Use by Injured Workers... Read More

NCCI Posts Sept. 2015 Quarterly Economics Briefing Newsletter . ProPublica Wins Journalism Award for ‘Insult to Injury’ Workers’ Comp Series . EEOC Declares Workers Comp Guidelines Don’t Supersede ADA . AL: NCCI Explains... Read More

In a split decision, the Supreme Court of Alabama recently held that a post-accident investigation report, prepared by a safety director and a co-worker and provided to the employer’s corporate health director and also to its in-house counsel was... Read More

An Alabama appellate court held that under the particular facts of the case, a walk-in bathtub was not “other apparatus” reasonably necessary for treating an employee’s injury (see Ala. Code § 25-5-77(a)) in spite of one physician’s... Read More

NCOIL Commits to Investigate “Opt-Out” Workers’ Comp, Stand Up to Federal Intervention . Third Circuit Rules Temp Workers Can Sue for Bias in Workplace . Telecommuting Challenges How to Measure, Regulate and Compensate Work . ... Read More

Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. National WC Premium Rate Rankings Announced; Calif. Most Expensive State... Read More

NCCI Posts Latest Economic Outlook and Impact on Workers Comp . Fitch Ratings Announces Top Workers Comp Insurance Writers for 2014 . OSHA Issues Inspection Guidance for Health Care Industry . Columnist: New Worker Category Should Be Created... Read More

A Pennsylvania appellate court held that a truck driver was not entitled to benefits in Pennsylvania for an extraterritorial injury because his employment was not principally localized in Pennsylvania where the driver and the employer entered into an... Read More

Injuries sustained by a Girl Scout camp business manager, when she was thrown from a horse during a recreational ride with other camp employees did not arise out of and in the course of the employment, held an Alabama appellate court. Quoting Larson’s... Read More

The Supreme Court of Alabama recently reversed a decision by the state’s Court of Civil Appeals that had, in turn, reversed a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of a former employee who filed a retaliatory discharge action against his former... Read More

Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. NATIONAL AND STATE NEWS: US DOL Posts Final Rule re Byrd Amendments... Read More

Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. CDC Publishes National Action Plan for Infertility, Workplace Exposures... Read More

NIOSH Recommends All Workplaces Be Tobacco Free, eCigarette Free . NIOSH Examines High Rate of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Among Poultry Workers . OSHA Updates Workplace Violence Protections for Healthcare, Social Service Workers . CMS Releases Version... Read More

The Supreme Court of Alabama, reversing the state’s Court of Appeals, reinstated a trial court’s decision awarding a school custodian PTD benefits stemming from her exposure to chemical fumes during the course of her employment. The employer... Read More

An Alabama appellate court recently reversed a state court’s judgment awarding compensation to an employee based on its determination that his work-related injury affected the employee’s body as a whole, rather than being limited to his knee... Read More