When an injured worker is a Medicare beneficiary due to age or disability, a Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) account will often be required as part of a settlement of their workers'’ compensation claim. The funds in a WCMSA are set-aside in order to pay for future medical or prescription drug services related to the [...]
To avoid misclassifying your workers' follow these tips: Don’t make assumptions. If you are a business owner you should consult a tax professional and an attorney to ensure you are complying with IRS and labor laws when hiring staff or contractors. If contracting with staffing companies or labor brokers, make sure those agencies are properly [...]
The number of workers' killed last year on the job in North Carolina has nearly doubled according to the state Department of Labor. A total of 44 people were killed in work-related accidents, all but one of the workers' was classified as male, and all of the deceased workers' were classified as “laborers” by the [...]
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, lumberjacks, fishermen and pilots have the highest risk of death while working. Data collected in 2013 showed that for every 100,000 loggers over 80 were killed on the job; for every 100,000 fishermen over 60 were killed on the job; for every 100,000 pilots and flight engineers over [...]
According to a recent news article by Rachel Noble Benner, a mental health counselor, chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts longer than three months. It affects more than 100 million sufferers in the United States alone, and for those who suffer from chronic pain caused by an illness or injury it may seem [...]
Blue Cross Blue Shield has created an online pricing tool to help patients compare prices of about 1,200 non-emergency medical procedures. Patients can now search for the best financial deal for services offered within North Carolina. By exposing this previously undisclosed information, patients are now able to go and see services according to the databases [...]
Today's post was shared by Gelman on Workplace Injuries and comes from en.wikipedia.org Nellie Kershaw (c. 1891 – 14 March 1924) Today's post is shared from wikipedia.org/ Nellie Kershaw was an English textile worker from Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Her death due to pulmonary asbestosis was the first such case to be described in medical literature, and the [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Charlie Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.This blog previously discussed the legal issues related to workers' suffering from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). Under Wisconsin law, there is a vast difference (in effect and value) for an injury to a workers' "body as a whole" (spine, head) versus a [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Kit Case, from Causey Law Firm.The Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has cited an Everett company for multiple safety violations related to the death of a worker last July. Nineteen-year-old Bradley Hogue was killed by a rotating auger while working inside the hopper of a bark-blower truck at [...]
In 1954 while working at the National Institute of Mental Health, Neuroscientist John C. Lilly developed a sensory-deprivation flotation tank in order to discover what would happen to the brain if it was deprived of as much stimulation as possible. According to Susan Jacobson, writer for the Orlando Sentinel, “The process works like this: A [...]