Have you ever wondered about the compensation professional athletes like baseball players get when they suffer career-limiting injuries? Many will be surprised to learn that pro sports teams must provide workers' compensation coverage to their players just like other...
Workers’ Compensation
Understanding workers’ compensation death benefits in Maryland
When an employee is killed on the job, it is very tragic. It affects not only the family of the deceased worker, but his or her coworkers, friends and community. Workers' compensation death benefits are in place to help the family financially during this difficult...
Athletes and workers’ comp: California changes its law
Workers' compensation systems operate at the state level. A partial federal government shutdown certainly provides a suitable occasion for a reminder of this.A state-based system means that Maryland has its own system for distributing compensation to workers injured...
Treating chronic back pain: a role for osteopathic manipulation?
Back injuries are one of the most common types of work injury. Indeed, they are one of the most common types of injury - period. Not surprisingly, then, problems with back pain are frequently involved in workers' compensation claims in Maryland and across the country....
Workers’ compensation and careless employee behavior
The term "grand bargain" is somewhat disfavored in Washington these days. But it shouldn't be; after all, a civilized society requires compromise and negotiation to move forward. Without those things, the clash of competing interests can harm everyone.Workers'...
Workers’ comp and employer retaliation: employees can fight back
It's better, ultimately, to face your fears. Perhaps you've been injured at work but are reluctant to pursue a workers' compensation claim because you fear your employer may hold it against you. If you are facing that situation, keep in mind that the employer is not...
OSHA fines Maryland company over heat-related fatality
Autumn has (finally) arrived, with cooler temperatures. But the brutal heat of the summer has scarcely been forgotten - especially for the family of a man killed on the job in a heat-related incident last summer in Washington, D.C.The man worked for a paving company...
Maryland OSHA investigating fatal construction accident
The Maryland Occupational Safety and Health agency (MOSH) is investigating a fatal accident that occurred at a Maryland construction site. It is the second serious accident at the site so far this summer. In this latest tragedy, a 27-year-old construction worker died...
Police, OSHA investigating fatal forklift accident at Random House warehouse
Police are investigating the death of a Hampstead, Maryland, man after the forklift he was operating crashed into a shelving unit. The Maryland workplace accident happened at the Random House Publishing warehouse in Westminster while the man was moving books stacked...
Maryland worker killed in accident at Purina plant
Despite improvements in workplace safety, workplace accidents continue to be a serious concern in Maryland and across the country. On average, four million Americans are injured on the job each year and over 500 people are killed in workplace accidents. Lapses in...
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