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#1 Maryland’s Workers’ Compensation Bars Non-Dependent Child’s Wrongful Death Claim

Dec 12 2023 // A non-dependent adult child whose father died on the job does not have a right to bring a wrongful death claim against her late father’s employer, the Maryland Appellate Court has ruled.The appeals court affirmed a...

#2 New Jersey Supreme Court: Workers’ Compensation Covers Commuting Employee’s Car Crash Injury

Nov 27 2023 // Typically, workers who are injured during their commute to work aren’t eligible for workers’ compensation benefits.The New Jersey Supreme Court highlighted an exception to that rule in a unanimous decision...

#3 Tech Firm Settles Over Failure to Accommodate Deaf Job Candidate

Dec 4 2023 // A San Diego-based technology firm for the hospitality industry has avoided a trial over charges it discriminated against a qualified deaf applicant from Massachusetts for a remote IT job.U.S. District Judge Richard G....

#4 Is Trampoline Job Landscape Work? AI Says Yes. 11th Circuit Says It’s Not Covered

May 30 2024 // Is the installation of an in-ground trampoline considered landscaping work, covered by a landscaper’s liability insurance policy?Artificial intelligence programs suggest that it is. But human judges with the 11th...

#5 Agency Compensation Rose Again in 2023 But Not Everyone Is Pleased

Feb 19 2024 // Agency salaries and total compensation rose in 2023 for everyone in the Insurance Journal Agency Salary Survey. But while insurance agency personnel made more money last year, not everyone was satisfied. Managers/owners...

#6 New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Rates to Fall 3.9% for 2024

Nov 28 2023 // New Jersey’s insurance regulator has approved a 3.9% reduction in workers’ compensation and employer liability rates starting January 1, 2024.The approved statewide rate change is based on the latest financial...

#7 Job Cuts, Fleeing Investors: How Anti-DEI Lawsuits Take a Toll on Targets

Mar 1 2024 // Elizabeth Gore is fighting for survival.Just six months ago, the founder of financial technology startup Hello Alice was getting ready to close an investment round to grow its business offering grants and networking...

#8 What’s So Great About a Career in an Insurance Agency?

Apr 15 2024 // What’s so great about a career in an insurance agency?Lots, actually. Like opportunity, flexibility, training, challenges, good pay, helping others, and job security. What’s more, it’s an opportunity...

#9 How a Small South Dakota College Became a Hub for Cyber Job Creation

Jul 31 2024 // MADISON, S.D. (AP) — A seed planted by South Dakota legislative and higher education leaders four decades ago has blossomed into one of the nation’s top high-tech universities located in a small city in the rural...

#10 Medical Cannabis User Fired After Failing Drug Test Appeals Denial of Job Benefits

Jun 3 2024 // A Vermont man who lost his job after he said a random drug test showed he had used medical marijuana off duty for chronic pain has appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court saying he should not have been denied a portion of...

#11 Property Owner Sued for Negligence in Hiring of Worker With Criminal Record

Apr 24 2024 // April Hurley’s attacker entered her apartment after identifying himself as the building maintenance man — a job he should never have obtained, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses the property owner and...

#12 New York Fund Receives $7.75 Million After Workers’ Compensation Fraud Prosecution

Dec 18 2023 // Law enforcement officials announced the final sentencing in their prosecution of an $18 million workers’ compensation fraud case and the return of $7.75 million to the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF).Manhattan...

#13 New York Court Officer Wins 9/11 Workers’ Compensation Benefits on Appeal

May 1 2024 // On the morning of September 11, 2001, Robert Liotta was at his job as a senior court officer at 100 Centre Street in New York City when not far away terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Right away, he began...

#14 School Crossing Guard Beats City’s Bid to Stop Her Workers ‘ Compensation Benefits

Jan 25 2024 // The Virginia city of Chesapeake has lost its bid to deny workers’ compensation medical benefits to a school crossing guard who injured her wrist when she fell while keeping her eyes on children around her...

#15 Employee Wins Workers’ Compensation Under Exception to ‘Coming-and-Going’ Bar

Feb 27 2024 // An exception to the workers’ compensation “coming-and-going” rule applies where the employer provides the transportation even if the employer says there was no explicit agreement that he would supply...

#16 How Worker Won Workers’ Compensation for Mental Health Care After Car Crash Injury

Feb 15 2024 // A Virginia employer cannot assert that an injury is unrelated to a workplace accident while also arguing that the medical care for that injury is unauthorized; instead the employer must choose one or the other position,...

#17 Managing Expectations While Going Green

Jul 1 2024 // From increased wildfires to flooding to wind and hail and hurricanes, the risks and resulting losses from climate change grow each year.While 2023 was the hottest year on record, 2024 is shaping up to beat that...

#18 City of London Chief Says Brexit ‘Disaster’ Cost 40,000 Finance Jobs

Oct 16 2024 // Britain’s departure from the European Union cost London’s financial center about 40,000 jobs, the Lord Mayor of the City of London told Reuters, a far deeper impact from Brexit than previous estimates.Michael...

#19 Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Sue for Job Discrimination

Apr 18 2024 // The US Supreme Court made it easier for employees to sue over discriminatory job transfers, siding with a St. Louis police officer who says she was shifted to a different role against her will because she is female.The...

#20 Court Must Decide If Child Victims Act Revives Old Workers’ Compensation Claims

Jul 31 2024 // Did New York lawmakers intend the Child Victims Act (CVA) that revived old claims of sexual abuse to apply to claims by employees that would previously have been handled by the workers’ compensation system?It’s...