The claimant’s bar should return to a mind set where indemnity and medical are negotiated separately and each component should be justified with actual exposure values, and not arbitrary figures.

Oakland airport skycap Keiana Vernon collapsed while helping passengers check luggage outside Terminal 2. Coworkers rushed to lift her to her feet, but she could barely walk. Pain radiated from the ...

Eleazar Resendiz Cortes has seen an incurable job-related lung disease disable six of his coworkers in the countertop fabrication industry. Two of the men in their 50s needed oxygen machines to ...

A thorough understanding of the law on comp immunity, combined with a comprehensive investigation into the players involved, including the machines or products being used, is crucial to maximizing ...

Outbreaks of valley fever have been documented in outdoor workers, but Arizona does not recognize the dust-borne infection as a work-related illness.

With 2026 under way, California workers’ compensation stakeholders are entering a more restrained legislative and judicial climate as the state transitions into a midterm election cycle. The ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the third consecutive year, both the number and frequency of work injury claims reported by California’s public self-insured employers declined last year, even as ...

Although most of an NFL player's rights and responsibilities are governed by the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NFL Players Association and the NFL, the geographic location of a player's ...

As lawmakers across the United States revisit how gig workers should be protected on the job, the debate is increasingly ...