A workers' compensation claim allows an injured employee to collect benefits in case of an on-the-job injury, including medical benefits as well as indemnity payments for time lost from work. During ...

The majority in a 2-1 split Commonwealth Court decision determined that a workers' compensation judge's review of a claimant's impairment rating evaluation should have taken into account work ...

According to researchers, the study's findings were counterintuitive: Claimants with higher disability ratings – which suggest higher severity and less ability to work – fared better than those with ...

What seemed like a simple story has become much more complicated, and we need your help. In 2017, the chief actuary of the main insurance industry rate-setting corporation for workers' compensation ...

If you experience an injury at work, the amount of compensation you receive depends on which impairment rating system is used, according to research from McMaster University and the Netherlands. The ...

Cuiellette v. City of Los Angeles (April 22, 2011) cautions employers that when an employee has been rated as 100% disabled for workers’ compensation purposes, the employer is not relieved of its ...

CHAPEL HILL -- A study of settlement decisions in workers' compensation claims for low back pain has found almost no relationship between the rating of the disability's severity when the claim was ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

For marine contractor Dutra Group, the $8.9-million pier substructure repair project put out to bid by the Port of San Francisco last year fit precisely in the company’s sweet spot. As did other ...

This is Part III of an NBC Bay Area investigation into California’s workers’ compensation system. Click here to see Part I. Click here to see Part II. Injured workers face an uphill, long-odds battle ...