Darrell Newbury called four or five lawyers to get help in restoring workers' compensation benefits he believes were unjustly cut off. None wanted to take the Fargo man's case without a retainer of $1 ...

Anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the practice of workers' compensation is aware that lump sum settlements are almost always, strictly voluntary. The act does still offer a vehicle for a ...

The two cases, decided only 10 days apart, provide us with a unique chance to look at how workers' compensation plays out in professional sports and why, for players who are paid so well, it is the ...

A pizza delivery guy who gets punched in the mouth during a robbery. A UPS driver who is hit in the face with falling boxes. A farmer kicked by a horse. An amusement park worker playing Spiderman who ...

Workers compensation cases are a great fit for orthopedic-based ambulatory surgery centers, says John DiPaola, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Occupational Orthopedics in Tualatin, Ore. In fact, his ...

A federal court has ruled against Grimmway Enterprises Inc. in a lawsuit accusing the locally based ag giant of engaging in a pattern and practice of discriminating against disabled farmworkers. The U ...

The landmark workers’ compensation package just signed into law by Gov. Gray Davis does more than raise benefits for injured workers. It makes sweeping changes to the workers’ compensation system, ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

LANSING — A recent Michigan Supreme Court ruling could make it easier for people to qualify for workers' compensation benefits for pre-existing mental disabilities if their job aggravates or ...

When Las Vegas resident Randall “Randy” Ralphs was injured on the job in 2013, he did not expect it would take more than 10 years for his workers’ compensation case to wrap up. Ralphs is one of ...