My company is currently in the process of expanding the calculator section within our WorkCompResearch.com service. And we might save the workers’ compensation industry in the process. Foremost among the efforts, and most requested by the workers’ comp professionals we serve, is an Average Weekly Wage Calculator. Our Compliance people and Developers have been toiling at that…
Workers' Comp Fraud, Like Everything Else, Must Keep Up with The Times
No matter what the endeavor, it is important to keep up in our rapidly changing world. I suppose that it is no different in the world of workers’ compensation fraud. Especially in the era of Covid, when fake slip and falls are so “yesterday.” Last month a New York man was arrested and accused of submitting multiple…
A New Podcast, and Other Exciting Stuff
It has been a busy year for many people, and that is no different for those of here at WorkersCompensation.com. We’ve been diligently planning a few exciting new projects; one of which I can announce, but the others must for now remain cloaked in secrecy and intrigue. Oh, and another of those new ideas is…
A Nation Divided: Covid and the Legislative Challenges It Brings
Monday, we wrote about a proposed bill in Utah that would allow firefighters combatting fires in states other than their own to collect workers’ compensation benefits if they were injured on the job. Legislators there are running into significant headwinds, in the form of paranoid accusations that they are really establishing paramilitary services to enslave…
When Utah Workers' Comp Reform Accidentally Brings on The Apocalypse
A workers’ compensation bill in Utah has generated quite the unexpected controversy. HB 16, which has cleared the Utah house and is now apparently sailing through the Senate, is intended to allow Utah firefighters to be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits if they are injured while fighting fires in other states. Opponents of the measure, however,…
When You're a Hammer, and Everything is a Nail
I was interviewed earlier this week by Greg Hamlin and Michael Gilmartin for their podcast, “Adjusted.” Recorded for release in a few weeks, it was a fun and entertaining experience. Those two probably missed their calling. They made it a very easy process. One of the questions I was asked was related to the workers’…
And Don't Forget to Take Your Arm!
Two public workers who were performing sidewalk maintenance in Lewiston, Maine are being hailed as heroes this week after encountering a severely injured man stumbling down the street toward them. It appeared his arm had been completely severed near the shoulder. They could tell it was a very recent injury, as he was carrying his…
Florida Public Health Doctor Nabbed Over Stab Regarding Jab (Or is That Jab Regarding Stab?)
It would seem when the Florida Legislature and Governor Ron DeSantis say that an employee’s vaccination status is nobody’s business, they mean it. A physician and top official of the Florida Department of Health has been placed on administrative leave after he criticized the agency’s staff over their low Covid vaccination rate. The epidemiologist is said to…
Should CompBob! Return?
It is not a question we ever anticipated asking, but, like a bad penny, the topic of CompBob! seems to routinely pop up from time to time. We finally decided that we should put it to a public vote, settling the issue once and for all. Should CompBob! be returned to our website? But first,…
Supreme Court Review of Washington Comp Law Regarding DOE Site Could Sting the Taxpayer
In 2018 Washington State passed HB 1723, which provides a rebuttable presumption that any present, past, or future worker at the Hanford Nuclear site who suffers “one of hundreds of covered illnesses,” may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. They do not need to show that the worksite was the reason for their illness. It…