Filing a Third-Party Claim for a Work Injury
When you’ve suffered any type of injury in the workplace, your first course of action is typically to notify your supervisor or employer and seek benefits through a workers’ compensation claim. Under… [Read more…]
To be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits in New York, there are only two requirements—you must have been injured and you must have suffered the injury while performing job-related functions. It’s fairly typical, in the aftermath of a … [Read more…]
In our last blog, we explained the basic requirements to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits in New Jersey—you must have suffered an injury and it must have been work-related. We also looked a couple of situations where there might be u… [Read more…]
In New Jersey, to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits, you must show two things: that you suffered an injury that keeps you from working or limits your ability to do your job; and that the injury was work-related, or sustained during the … [Read more…]
Residential and commercial construction sites are among the most dangerous places in the country to work. One of the common causes of these types of injuries is a dangerous or defective product, what the law refers to as “product liability.”
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The construction industry is one of the most dangerous places in America to work, with almost 20 jobsite deaths a week. According to OSHA statistics, more than 900 construction workers were killed on the job in 2015, with nearly two-thirds of th… [Read more…]
It’s well-known, and U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics confirm, that working on a residential or commercial construction site is one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. According to reports, nearly seven million construction site injur… [Read more…]
The future of a popular television show on the Science Channel may be in jeopardy after the producer of the segment was nearly killed in an explosion. The accident occurred during the 2016 World Championship Punkin Chunkin, an event where contes… [Read more…]
A preliminary total of 4,609 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United States in 2011, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. A workplace injury is any injury that occurs ‘in the course of work’, meaning during the course of car… [Read more…]