workers compensation injuries

October 4, 2023

‘They Made a Huge Profit Knowing They’d Kill People’: US Firms Use Tactics To Avoid Paying Asbestos Victims

Michael Sainato The Guardian

Advocates say corporate strategy known as ‘Texas two-step’ is being used as ‘menu choice’ to avoid paying compensation

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July 6, 2023

Delayed Care, Stolen Wages: The Human Cost of Worker Misclassification

Isabela Escalona Workday Magazine

Misclassification of workers may sound like a clerical error. But in the construction industry, it can lead to wage theft, intimidation, and delayed treatment for workplace injuries.

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April 7, 2022

Longshoremen Seek Workers’ Comp Law Change for COVID-19 Coverage

Jessica Wehrman Roll Call

The Department of Labor accepted 86 percent of COVID-19 claims for federal workers, while it accepted only 7 percent of COVID-19 related claims from longshore and other harbor workers.

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March 9, 2015

Injured Workers Suffer As 'Reforms' Limit Workers' Compensation Benefits

Howard Berkes and Michael Grabell NPR and ProPublica

Over the past decade, state after state has been dismantling America's workers' comp system with disastrous consequences for many of the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer serious injuries at work each year, a ProPublica and NPR investigation has found. The cutbacks have been so drastic in some places that they virtually guarantee injured workers will plummet into poverty. Workers often battle insurance companies for years to get the surgeries, prescriptions and

December 23, 2013

Temporary Work, Lasting Harm

Michael Grabell, Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson ProPublica

Since the 2008 recession, companies have increasingly turned to temporary employees to work in factories and warehouses and on construction sites. The temp industry now employs a record 2.8 million workers.The trend carries a human cost. A ProPublica analysis of millions of workers’ compensation claims shows that in five states, representing more than a fifth of the U.S. population, temps face a significantly greater risk of getting injured on the job.

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