Archive: Workers’ Compensation Blog

When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, many non-essential businesses were forced to cease operations. This affected workers in many sectors, including manufacturing.  As we approach a sense of normalcy and work starts up again, manufacturing workers and their employers may…

Is the coronavirus an occupational illness? Workers’ comp and employment law is notoriously complex. It is governed by a mass of complex state and federal regulations. If you have been injured on the job or contracted Covid-19, or an occupational…

While everyone has been forced to make adjustments to cope with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, few have been hit as hard as so-called “essential workers.” Health care workers, grocery stores stockers and checkers, and truckers have faced new, escalating difficulties. …

Even before the world found itself gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more people were working from home. In fact, prior to the pandemic, almost 7 percent of private sector workers were working from home, up from 5 percent…

First responders are called upon in many stressful situations – including damaging weather events, gruesome traffic and school bus accidents, gun violence, and fires – every day, if not more than once a day. As a result, most first responders…