Wisconsin had the highest injury rate among Midwestern states in 2018 while Illinois had the lowest, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a new report.
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The Associated Press and Kaiser Health News, in separate articles published Monday, reported that some frontline workers who contract COVID-19 will face a fight to
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Homemade, two-layer cotton face coverings can provide effective protection against spewing droplets into the air, even better than some commercially available fiber face masks, says a
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The coronavirus recession will likely have a much bigger impact on employment and on workers' compensation written premium than did the Great Recession of 2009,
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Three U.S. senators, all Democrats, have introduced legislation that would create a presumption that federal wildfire workers who contract COVID-19 during fire season do so in the
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The 75% decline in prescription drug payments per medical claim in California was the best observed among the 28 states the Workers Compensation Research Institute studied
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When the Workers' Compensation Institute canceled its annual conference planned for August it announced that a special section on cybersecurity would go forward as an
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Strains, sprains, slips and falls continue to be the top causes of nonfatal workplace injuries, costing insurers and employers billions of dollars in 2020, Liberty
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Tower MSA Partners is hosting a webinar July 22 to discuss Medicare’s mandatory reporting penalty.
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Carriers face a fine of
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Workers’ compensation professionals anticipate a 20% overall decrease in the number of new injury claims this year, according to results of a survey released by
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