Common injuries that occur in warehouses
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), more than 145,000 laborers throughout the U.S. work in warehouses. Unfortunately, 25 percent of these laborers will sustain injuries in any given year, as indicated by data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Because the majority of warehouses contain safety hazards, workers are often […]
Benefits in a workers’ compensation case
If you suffer an injury at work, you are entitled to several benefits under the workers’ compensation system. Among the types of benefits available to the victim is medical care to alleviate any pain from the injury, as well as to provide a cure for the injury or resulting illness. You may also receive compensation […]
Filing a workers compensation claim should not result in termination
When employees are injured in the workplace they are often fearful of filing a workers compensation claim because they think the employer may retaliate by terminating their employment. However, it is illegal for employers to fire their employees because they filed such a claim. Nevertheless, employers may create other reasons for terminating the employment of […]
Construction worker who suffered injury during rescue entitled to workers compensation
A Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania panel issued a ruling that a construction worker who was injured while performing a rescue is entitled to workers compensation. The court did not accept the contention put forth by Franklin Pound’s employer, who argued that Pound was not engaged in work at the time at which he tried to […]
Deadly Pennsylvania zinc plant explosion put spotlight on hazardous conditions
Many cases involving premises liability bring up the question of whether a landowner has negligently allowed hazardous conditions to remain on his or her property that have caused injury to an individual who was legitimately on that property when the injury occurred. A recent case from Pennsylvania has come to light in which a zinc […]
Workers’ compensation system complexity highlighted in Pennsylvania check-cashing case
The workers’ compensation legal systems in most states, including New Jersey and Pennsylvania, are complex. And a high-profile example of why workers’ compensation is so complex was revisited on February 20, when a seven-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ordered the state Appeal Board to reconsider the twice-denied claim of a woman who […]
Giving weight to risk factors, NJ high court denies workers’ compensation case
On July 30, the New Jersey Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision awarding workers’ compensation benefits to the widower of an AT&T employee who died one hour after completing her work. The facts behind the case are unusual, and the high court’s decision, which accounted for a number of newly argued risk factors that […]
Pennsylvania high court’s ruling sets high bar for slip-and-fall cases
Recently, the Pennsylvania Superior Court denied the appeal of a man who claimed that a judge in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas had given improper jury instructions. As a result of the Superior Court ruling, the verdict rendered against the man in his personal injury lawsuit has been upheld. The verdict has also offered […]
Citing Where Petitioner Was Injured as Key, High Court Nixes Workers’ Compensation Claim
Anyone who thought that the emphasis on location, location, location was a matter of importance to the real estate business only may have missed its relevance in New Jersey law. That is because the New Jersey Supreme Court has handed down a ruling that denied a workers’ compensation claim, and location was very much a […]