A New York police officer who was injured while stepping out of her patrol car during a coffee break was not entitled to accidental disability retirement benefits because she was not performing work duties at the time of the incident, a state appeals court has ruled. The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court …
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CARLSBAD, California — Getting a company’s executives to support a return-to-work program that effectively puts injured workers on light duty in-house is a numbers game, according to workers comp leader who in 2021 helped create such a program for a large transportation company. Char Duffy, who ran the workers compensation program for Yellow Corp. Inc. …
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An Iowa appellate court on Wednesday denied an appeal by a man who sought additional workers compensation benefits after suffering off-the-job injuries he claims were directly connected to a workplace eye injury. The Iowa Court of Appeals ruled that Robert Thomas failed to prove that injuries he suffered in June 2018 after stepping off a …
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There were 2.8 million nonfatal workplace injuries in private industry nationwide in 2022, up 7.5% from the prior year, according to figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Increases in both injuries and illnesses were driving factors behind the change from 2021, the BLS said, and the illness increase was attributed in …
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Human error was largely to blame for the workplace death of an Illinois sanitation worker who was crushed by a garbage truck during trash pickup services in Springfield in October 2022, according to a report released Monday by the Illinois Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The employee was pinned between a garbage truck and …
Human error mostly to blame for sanitation worker fatality: Illinois OSHA Read More »
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday it cited Maplewood, Minnesota-based 3M Co. after a worker died at its Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, facility in May after becoming caught in a machine’s rotating rollers. OSHA cited 3M for two willful safety violations and proposed $312,518 in penalties. The company, OSHA said, failed to …
A Pennsylvania appeals court on Monday upheld a determination by a workers compensation judge that limited to medical benefits only a claim petition filed by a correctional officer who says he was declared legally blind in one eye following a workplace injury. The Commonwealth Court said a comp judge correctly found John Sherman, who worked …
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Insurance premium renewal rates climbed in October in five out of six lines of coverage tracked by Ivans Insurance Services, a unit of Applied Systems Inc. Commercial property insurance rates increased the most, rising by an average 10.4% last month, compared with 9.9% in September. In other lines, business owners policy rates increased 8.8%, compared …